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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.5723S, 169.0781WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:05:40 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 117.95 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 169.0781 East, latitude -19.5723 South, depth = 117.95 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/16 / 2016-06-28 09:05:40 / June 28, 2016 @ 9:05 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200067fz. Id of event: us200067fz.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (12 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km W of Isangel, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.0781° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.5723° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km W of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-28 09:05:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-28 10:06:01 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 326 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 2.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us200067fz Id of event.
Event Code 200067fz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200067fz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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