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


Earthquake location -14.864S, 167.4746WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 07:01:47 / January 12, 2020 @ 7:01 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 118.5 km (74 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 167.4746° East, -14.864° South, depth 118.5 km. Unique identifier: us60007esd. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007esd. The temblor was detected at 18:01:47 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville. Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km ENE of Port-Olry, 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 167.4746° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.864° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km ENE 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 2020-01-12 07:01:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-07 09:56:06 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 0.636 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 219 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 us60007esd Id of event.
Event Code 60007esd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007esd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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