A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 211 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia (131 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/18 / 2018-12-07 04:03:10 / December 7, 2018 @ 4:03 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 169.9248° East, -21.5975° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000it9e. Event ids that are associated: us2000it9e. The temblor was reported at 15:03:10 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 211 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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