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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 225 km W of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -22.7352S, 169.8871WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 225 km W of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia (140 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000itaq. Unique identifier: us2000itaq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.8871 East, latitude -22.7352 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/18 / 2018-12-07 23:44:17 / December 7, 2018 @ 11:44 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:44:17 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 225 km W of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.8871° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.7352° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 225km W of Ile Hunter, 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 2018-12-07 23:44:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-22 05:05:19 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 3.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us2000itaq Id of event.
Event Code 2000itaq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000itaq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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