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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -18.889S, 170.5061WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 149 km ENE of Isangel, Vanuatu (93 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000chuh. Event ids that are associated: us2000chuh. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/17 / 2017-12-25 13:11:41 / December 25, 2017 @ 1:11 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 248.72 km (155 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 248.72 km, 170.5061° East, -18.889° South. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:11:41 / 12:11 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 149 km ENE of Isangel, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 170.5061° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.889° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 248.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 149km ENE 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 2017-12-25 13:11:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-10 20:07:51 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 3.472 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us2000chuh Id of event.
Event Code 2000chuh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000chuh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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