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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -18.8894S, 168.1711WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 128 km S of Port-Vila, Vanuatu (80 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 00:32:25 / December 16, 2019 @ 12:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.1711 East, latitude -18.8894 South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us60006ryj. Event ids that are associated: us60006ryj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:32:25 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 128 km S of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.1711° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.8894° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 128km S of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-16 00:32:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-16 01:15:20 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 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 2.581 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60006ryj Id of event.
Event Code 60006ryj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006ryj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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