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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 67 km NNE of Isangel, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -18.9518S, 169.4117WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (mg/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. The temblor was reported at 06:20:31 / 6:20 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 254.14 km (158 miles). Global time of event 23/06/15 / 2015-06-23 19:20:31 / June 23, 2015 @ 7:20 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 169.4117 East, latitude -18.9518 South, depth 254.14 km, unique identifier, us10002l7z. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us10002l7z,.

Close countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.4117° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.9518° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 254.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km NNE of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-23 19:20:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-23 19:44:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 354 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 2.733 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us10002l7z Id of event.
Event Code 10002l7z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002l7z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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