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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.4538S, 168.0119WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.0119 East, latitude -16.4538 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iudg. Id of event: us2000iudg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:16:13 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/12/18 / 2018-12-17 07:16:13 / December 17, 2018 @ 7:16 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro. Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 73 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0119° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.4538° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-17 07:16:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-17 08:19:21 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 354 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 5.394 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us2000iudg Id of event.
Event Code 2000iudg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iudg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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