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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on June 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.2388S, 168.4476WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us200065m1. Unique identifier: us200065m1. The temblor was reported at 10:27:23 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 216.5 km (135 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 23:27:23 / June 20, 2016 @ 11:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 168.4476° East, latitude -17.2388° South, depth = 216.5 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km NNE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.4476° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.2388° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 216.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km NNE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-20 23:27:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-21 00:38:02 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 340 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 3.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us200065m1 Id of event.
Event Code 200065m1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065m1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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