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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 47 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.8715S, 167.4538WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The epicenter was at a depth of 120.25 km (75 miles). Unique identifier: us10004u2p. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004u2p. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 15:10:35 / March 2, 2016 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 167.4538° East, -14.8715° South, depth 120.25 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:10:35 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville (min 5000 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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 47 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4538° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.8715° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km ENE 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 2016-03-02 15:10:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-02 22:45:27 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 326 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 0.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us10004u2p Id of event.
Event Code 10004u2p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004u2p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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