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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.1464S, 166.9576WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.9576 East, latitude -14.1464 South, depth = 10.07 km. The temblor was reported at 10:10:48 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20005gg5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005gg5. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/04/16 / 2016-04-03 23:10:48 / April 3, 2016 @ 11:10 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.07 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.9576° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.1464° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-03 23:10:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-08 23:44:00 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 284 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 1.314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us20005gg5 Id of event.
Event Code 20005gg5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005gg5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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