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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 46 km E of Luganville, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.4794S, 167.5934WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 13:16:54 / October 30, 2018 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 167.5934 East, latitude -15.4794 South, depth = 142.97 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:16:54 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 142.97 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i7k8. Id of event: us2000i7k8.

Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Luganville.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km E of Luganville, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.4794° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km 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 2018-10-30 13:16:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-06 19:45:37 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 5.944 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us2000i7k8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i7k8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i7k8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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