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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.9262S, 168.2075WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, 168.2075° East, -17.9262° South, depth 96.07 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005zdu. Unique identifier: us20005zdu. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 13:56:37 / May 25, 2016 @ 1:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 96.07 km (60 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:56:37 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila. Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (15 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This information 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 168.2075° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9262° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSW 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 2016-05-25 13:56:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-23 06:30:02 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 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 2.646 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us20005zdu Id of event.
Event Code 20005zdu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zdu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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