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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 55 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.6235S, 167.3143WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 01:23:48 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100.92 km (63 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/15 / 2015-11-14 14:23:48 / November 14, 2015 @ 2:23 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10003ycg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003ycg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 167.3143 East, latitude -14.6235 South, depth = 100.92 km.

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3143° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.6235° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-14 14:23:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-14 15:07:13 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 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 0.825 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 us10003ycg Id of event.
Event Code 10003ycg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003ycg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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