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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.1461S, 166.629WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 103 km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu (64 miles). Id of earthquake: us10005bpc. Event ids that are associated: us10005bpc. The temblor was reported at 16:48:16 / 4:48 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 05:48:16 / April 17, 2016 @ 5:48 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.9 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.629 East, latitude -14.1461 South, depth = 23.9 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 103 km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.629° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.1461° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km 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 2016-04-17 05:48:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-13 12:32:15 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 1.407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us10005bpc Id of event.
Event Code 10005bpc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005bpc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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