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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -18.7084S, 169.1838WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. Event id: us70008he6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008he6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 228.6 km (142 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 13:56:37 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/03/20 / 2020-03-24 02:56:37 / March 24, 2020 @ 2:56 am. Exact location of event, depth 228.6 km, 169.1838° East, -18.7084° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five 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 quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 93 km N of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.1838° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.7084° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 228.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km N of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-24 02:56:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-06 21:44:05 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 2.963 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us70008he6 Id of event.
Event Code 70008he6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008he6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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