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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.4256S, 167.484WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006tt5. Id of event: us70006tt5. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:15:21 / 9:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 197.05 km (122 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.484 East, latitude -14.4256 South, depth = 197.05 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 22:15:21 / December 16, 2019 @ 10:15 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 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 Sola.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km S of Sola, 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 167.484° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.4256° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 197.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km S 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 2019-12-16 22:15:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 05:12:54 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 1.051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us70006tt5 Id of event.
Event Code 70006tt5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006tt5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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