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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.9403S, 167.3356WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000izjv. Id of event: us2000izjv. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/01/19 / 2019-01-01 00:04:06 / January 1, 2019 @ 12:04 am. 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 47.33 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.3356 East, latitude -14.9403 South, depth = 47.33 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:04:06 / 11:04 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9403° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-01 00:04:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-01 00:31:44 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 7.143 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us2000izjv Id of event.
Event Code 2000izjv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000izjv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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