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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 41 km ENE of Isangel, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.3629S, 169.6064WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu on Friday. The temblor was detected at 17:28:57 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us200041jz. Event ids that are associated: us200041jz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.53 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/15 / 2015-10-30 06:28:57 / October 30, 2015 @ 6:28 am. Exact location of event, longitude 169.6064 East, latitude -19.3629 South, depth = 22.53 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km ENE of Isangel, Vanuatu. This information 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 169.6064° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.3629° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ENE 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 2015-10-30 06:28:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 12:21:26 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 2.573 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us200041jz Id of event.
Event Code 200041jz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200041jz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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