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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.822S, 167.4337WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 143.19 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 167.4337 East, latitude -14.822 South, depth = 143.19 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 20:53:54 / January 29, 2020 @ 8:53 pm. Unique identifier: us70007kwl. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007kwl. The temblor was picked up at 07:53:54 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 48 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4337° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.822° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km 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 2020-01-29 20:53:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-18 20:06:45 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 259 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 0.66 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us70007kwl Id of event.
Event Code 70007kwl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007kwl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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