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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.94S, 167.7066WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.15 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/20 / 2020-08-28 10:17:49 / August 28, 2020 @ 10:17 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bea6. Id of event: us7000bea6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 167.7066° East, latitude -14.94° South, depth = 38.15 km. The temblor was reported at 10:17:49 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 69 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.7066° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.94° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km 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 2020-08-28 10:17:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-30 21:55:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 370 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 0.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us7000bea6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bea6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bea6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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