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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Luganville in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.5608S, 167.5665WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:16:38 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000406w. Unique identifier: us2000406w. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.5665 East, latitude -15.5608 South, depth = 112.03 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/10/15 / 2015-10-23 21:16:38 / October 23, 2015 @ 9:16 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 112.03 km (70 miles).

The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Luganville (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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 nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km E of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5665° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.5608° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km E of Luganville, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-23 21:16:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-10 04:40:47 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 298 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 0.368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us2000406w Id of event.
Event Code 2000406w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000406w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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