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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -12.3422S, 166.6207WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 198 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu (123 miles) on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us20005yjd. Event ids that are associated: us20005yjd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 22/05/16 / 2016-05-22 06:32:41 / May 22, 2016 @ 6:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 166.6207 East, latitude -12.3422 South, depth = 34.67 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.67 km (22 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:32:41 / 5:32 pm (local time epicenter).

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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 198 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.6207° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.3422° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 198km NNW 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 2016-05-22 06:32:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-12 11:26:16 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 3.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us20005yjd Id of event.
Event Code 20005yjd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005yjd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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