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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.2618S, 166.548WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 102 km NNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu (63 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 22:20:42 / April 14, 2016 @ 10:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:20:42 / 9:20 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.34 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20005kvh. Event ids that are associated: us20005kvh. Exact location of event, longitude 166.548 East, latitude -14.2618 South, depth = 35.34 km.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 102 km NNW 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 166.548° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.2618° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km NNW 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 2016-04-14 22:20:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-10 02:35:44 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 1.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us20005kvh Id of event.
Event Code 20005kvh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005kvh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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