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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.7064S, 167.9004WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 98 km SSE of Sola, Vanuatu (61 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/05/17 / 2017-05-07 23:05:48 / May 7, 2017 @ 11:05 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.99 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 167.9004° East, -14.7064° South, depth 45.99 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10008rw5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008rw5. The temblor was reported at 10:05:48 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 98 km SSE of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.9004° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.7064° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km SSE 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 2017-05-07 23:05:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-16 04:38:46 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 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 6.756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us10008rw5 Id of event.
Event Code 10008rw5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008rw5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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