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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -18.2294S, 168.3348WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:06:56 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000629i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000629i. Exact location of event, depth 36.27 km, 168.3348° East, -18.2294° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 22:06:56 / July 9, 2016 @ 10:06 pm. 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 36.27 km (23 miles).

Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km S of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.3348° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.2294° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km S 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 2016-07-09 22:06:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-09 22:24:57 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 354 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 2.736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us1000629i Id of event.
Event Code 1000629i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000629i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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