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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 30 km SW of Lakatoro, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.2879S, 167.1928WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us200066jt. Unique identifier: us200066jt. Exact location of event, longitude 167.1928 East, latitude -16.2879 South, depth = 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:30:40 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/06/16 / 2016-06-21 14:30:40 / June 21, 2016 @ 2:30 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Lakatoro.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 30 km SW of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.1928° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.2879° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SW of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-21 14:30:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-20 13:43:24 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 284 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 4.465 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us200066jt Id of event.
Event Code 200066jt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200066jt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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