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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.3961S, 167.7471WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 167.7471° East, latitude -16.3961° South, depth = 38.2 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003kje. Unique identifier: us20003kje. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 09:02:03 / September 17, 2015 @ 9:02 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:02:03 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.2 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 46 km SE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.7471° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.3961° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-17 09:02:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 09:21:35 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 4.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us20003kje Id of event.
Event Code 20003kje An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kje, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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