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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Luganville in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.4788S, 167.6265WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 129.6 km (81 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 22/03/18 / 2018-03-22 00:44:44 / March 22, 2018 @ 12:44 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:44:44 / 11:44 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000d7c6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d7c6. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.6265 East, latitude -15.4788 South, depth = 129.6 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro, Luganville.

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 five and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 49 km E of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.6265° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.4788° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km E of Luganville, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-22 00:44:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-22 01:03:55 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 369 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 5.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us1000d7c6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d7c6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d7c6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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