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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 45 km NNW of Isangel, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.2047S, 169.024WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 00:29:36 / January 30, 2019 @ 12:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 169.024° East, latitude -19.2047° South, depth = 133.61 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:29:36 / 11:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 133.61 km (83 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jhdv. Id of event: us2000jhdv.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km NNW of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.024° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.2047° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NNW of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-30 00:29:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-14 23:07:20 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 259 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 3.738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us2000jhdv Id of event.
Event Code 2000jhdv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jhdv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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