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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 75 km S of Lakatoro, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.8001S, 167.3784WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/05/16 / 2016-05-29 00:43:07 / May 29, 2016 @ 12:43 am. Exact location of earthquake, 167.3784° East, -16.8001° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 11:43:07 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20005yy7. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005yy7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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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: 75 km S of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3784° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.8001° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km S of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-29 00:43:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-29 01:00:40 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 369 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 3.958 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us20005yy7 Id of event.
Event Code 20005yy7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005yy7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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