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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -22.1282S, 169.4756WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 176 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (109 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:36:39 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 21:36:39 / December 5, 2018 @ 9:36 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000istt. Unique identifier: us2000istt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 169.4756 East, latitude -22.1282 South, depth = 10 km.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 176 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.4756° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.1282° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176km 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 2018-12-05 21:36:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-13 23:39:00 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 326 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 2.805 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us2000istt Id of event.
Event Code 2000istt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000istt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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