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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.0823S, 167.3579WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Port-Olry 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 30/09/19 / 2019-09-30 06:06:57 / September 30, 2019 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 102.21 km (64 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:06:57 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 167.3579° East, latitude -15.0823° South, depth = 102.21 km. Event id: us70005sky. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005sky.

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). 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 Luganville.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3579° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.0823° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km E 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 2019-09-30 06:06:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-27 07:25:43 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 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 0.392 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us70005sky Id of event.
Event Code 70005sky An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005sky, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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