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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.2135S, 169.2781WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/02/17 / 2017-02-16 21:59:01 / February 16, 2017 @ 9:59 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 169.2781° East, -19.2135° South, depth 141.58 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:59:01 / 8:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 141.58 km (88 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008m61. Id of event: us20008m61.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel. Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km N of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.2781° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.2135° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 141.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km N 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 2017-02-16 21:59:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-26 04:26:27 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 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 2.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us20008m61 Id of event.
Event Code 20008m61 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008m61, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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