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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -13.6119S, 167.338WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Saturday. Unique identifier: us1000d7xt. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d7xt. 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 201.35 km (125 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:10:05 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 167.338° East, -13.6119° South, depth 201.35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/03/18 / 2018-03-16 17:10:05 / March 16, 2018 @ 5:10 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 37 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.338° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.6119° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 201.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NW 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 2018-03-16 17:10:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-14 16:12:56 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 312 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 7.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 256 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 us1000d7xt Id of event.
Event Code 1000d7xt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d7xt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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