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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 198 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -22.3076S, 169.6216WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 198 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (123 miles) on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us600042nv. Event ids that are associated: us600042nv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.6216 East, latitude -22.3076 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 07:27:42 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/06/19 / 2019-06-18 20:27:42 / June 18, 2019 @ 8:27 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 198 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.6216° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.3076° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 198km 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 2019-06-18 20:27:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-18 20:39:53 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 432 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 2.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600042nv Id of event.
Event Code 600042nv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600042nv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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