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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.7957S, 169.9342WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 213 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia (132 miles). Id of earthquake: us700062yv. Event ids that are associated: us700062yv. Global time and date of event 26/10/19 / 2019-10-26 17:39:43 / October 26, 2019 @ 5:39 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:39:43 / 4:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.49 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 169.9342° East, -21.7957° South, depth 29.49 km.

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

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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. 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: 213 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.9342° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7957° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 213km E 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 2019-10-26 17:39:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 18:36:00 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 312 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 2.444 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us700062yv Id of event.
Event Code 700062yv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700062yv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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