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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.0485S, 167.7523WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Monday. Id of earthquake: us60007bgd. Event ids that are associated: us60007bgd. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.7523 East, latitude -15.0485 South, depth = 123.54 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:55:24 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 03:55:24 / January 6, 2020 @ 3:55 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.54 km (77 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).

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

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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: 75 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.7523° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.0485° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2020-01-06 03:55:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 02:24:37 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 271 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 0.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 278 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 us60007bgd Id of event.
Event Code 60007bgd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007bgd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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