A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 137 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (85 miles) on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 19:27:47 / December 20, 2018 @ 7:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:27:47 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 169.0931° East, -22.0689° South. Id of earthquake: us2000j1s5. Event ids that are associated: us2000j1s5.
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 ten, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 137 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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