A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 172 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (107 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 10:14:29 / December 5, 2018 @ 10:14 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:14:29 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000i2p3. Unique identifier: us1000i2p3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 169.4158 East, latitude -22.1579 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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