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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.7275S, 167.5443WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 137.36 km (85 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/16 / 2016-10-17 11:10:04 / October 17, 2016 @ 11:10 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20007fx7. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007fx7. Exact location of event, depth 137.36 km, 167.5443° East, -14.7275° South. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:10:04 / 10:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola. Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

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

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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. 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: 64 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5443° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.7275° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-17 11:10:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-29 07:57:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 6.023 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 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 us20007fx7 Id of event.
Event Code 20007fx7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fx7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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