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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.225S, 168.1286WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j2xc. Id of event: us2000j2xc. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.1286 East, latitude -16.225 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/18 / 2018-12-23 23:32:48 / December 23, 2018 @ 11:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:32:48 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro. Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop).

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

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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: 77 km E of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.1286° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.225° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km E 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 2018-12-23 23:32:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-12 04:14:35 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 298 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 6.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 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 us2000j2xc Id of event.
Event Code 2000j2xc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j2xc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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