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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia

Posted by admin on December 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.3207S, 168.784WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia kilometers (0 miles) from Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/18 / 2018-12-06 04:02:28 / December 6, 2018 @ 4:02 am. The temblor was picked up at 04:02:28 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.784 East, latitude -21.3207 South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000i38p. Event ids that are associated: us1000i38p.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.784° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.3207° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Loyalty Islands, 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 2018-12-06 04:02:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-06 04:25:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 385 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 2.301 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us1000i38p Id of event.
Event Code 1000i38p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i38p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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