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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.2843S, 167.511WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 164.37 km (102 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 13:48:23 / June 13, 2016 @ 1:48 pm. Event id: us200065i8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200065i8. The temblor was detected at 00:48:23 / 12:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.511 East, latitude -14.2843 South, depth = 164.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 44 km S of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.511° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.2843° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 164.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km S 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 2016-06-13 13:48:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-04 19:46:52 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 298 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 6.95 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us200065i8 Id of event.
Event Code 200065i8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065i8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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