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Strong earthquake: M6.4 quake has struck near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on October 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.726S, 169.4867WA earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 167 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia (104 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:03:43 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/18 / 2018-10-16 01:03:43 / October 16, 2018 @ 1:03 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tadine in New Caledonia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 169.4867° East, latitude -21.726° South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000hclz. Event ids that are associated: pt18289051, at00pgo2ya, us1000hclz.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 167 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.4867° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.726° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 167km E 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 2018-10-16 01:03:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-16 01:24:58 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 3.78 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 630 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 ,pt,at,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 2.087 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hclz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hclz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18289051,at00pgo2ya,us1000hclz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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