A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 131 km ENE of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia (81 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 173.1589 East, latitude -21.8108 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70006xs8. Event ids that are associated: us70006xs8. The temblor was picked up at 21:20:05 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 09:20:05 / December 25, 2019 @ 9:20 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 131 km ENE of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia.
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