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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.1544S, 168.0677WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. The temblor was reported at 19:08:18 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us600055b0. Ids that are associated to the event: us600055b0. Exact location of event, depth 175.21 km, 168.0677° East, -16.1544° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 175.21 km (109 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/19 / 2019-08-15 08:08:18 / August 15, 2019 @ 8:08 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro (min 5000 pop).

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 six and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 69 km E of Lakatoro, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0677° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.1544° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 175.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 2019-08-15 08:08:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-15 08:29:14 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 312 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 1.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 us600055b0 Id of event.
Event Code 600055b0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600055b0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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