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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 208 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -22.0897S, 169.814WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 208 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (129 miles) on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.31 km (23 miles). Global time and date of event 29/08/18 / 2018-08-29 15:41:18 / August 29, 2018 @ 3:41 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 169.814° East, latitude -22.0897° South, depth = 36.31 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:41:18 / 2:41 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000h9h9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000h9h9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 208 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.814° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.0897° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 208km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-29 15:41:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-12 03:56:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000h9h9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000h9h9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h9h9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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