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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -20.6925S, 169.6729WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 133 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/05/17 / 2017-05-31 08:35:25 / May 31, 2017 @ 8:35 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009l43. Unique identifier: us20009l43. Exact location of earthquake, 169.6729° East, -20.6925° South, depth 99.36 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 99.36 km (62 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:35:25 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 133 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.6729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6925° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133km SSE 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 2017-05-31 08:35:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-29 07:52:45 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 1.722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us20009l43 Id of event.
Event Code 20009l43 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009l43, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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