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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.8853S, 167.3057WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. Exact location, longitude 167.3057° East, latitude -16.8853° South, depth = 43.01 km. The temblor was reported at 00:41:19 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.01 km (27 miles). Event id: us70009cd4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009cd4. Global time and date of event 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 13:41:19 / May 8, 2020 @ 1:41 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 85 km S of Lakatoro, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3057° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.8853° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km S of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-08 13:41:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 14:05:33 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 340 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 1.433 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us70009cd4 Id of event.
Event Code 70009cd4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009cd4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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