A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 174 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (108 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 169.4622 East, latitude -22.1066 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 17:37:20 / February 12, 2019 @ 5:37 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:37:20 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000jnk1. Event ids that are associated: us2000jnk1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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