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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -13.8529S, 167.383WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jhg6. Unique identifier: us2000jhg6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.383 East, latitude -13.8529 South, depth = 190.38 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 190.38 km (118 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:04:01 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/02/19 / 2019-02-01 05:04:01 / February 1, 2019 @ 5:04 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola. Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-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. 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: 18 km W of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.383° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.8529° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 190.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km W of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-01 05:04:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-24 13:29:43 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 284 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 8.222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us2000jhg6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jhg6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jhg6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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