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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.0491S, 170.2435WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 291 km E of Sola, Vanuatu (181 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 170.2435 East, latitude -14.0491 South, depth = 611.92 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 611.92 km (380 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:01:06 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/04/17 / 2017-04-19 05:01:06 / April 19, 2017 @ 5:01 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008iwf. Id of event: us10008iwf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 291 km E of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 170.2435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.0491° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 611.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 291km E 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 2017-04-19 05:01:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-19 05:22:00 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 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 7.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us10008iwf Id of event.
Event Code 10008iwf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008iwf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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