A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia (62 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 18:41:26 / 6:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 168.8027° East, latitude -21.2599° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/19 / 2019-10-26 07:41:26 / October 26, 2019 @ 7:41 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700062yc. Id of event: us700062yc.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 100 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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