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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.201S, 167.4122WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 23:05:09 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/20 / 2020-08-21 23:05:09 / August 21, 2020 @ 11:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.4122 East, latitude -14.201 South, depth = 194.97 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 194.97 km (121 miles). Unique identifier: us7000bds4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bds4.

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 38 km (24 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (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 six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km SSW of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4122° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.201° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 194.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km SSW of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-21 23:05:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-28 04:28:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 284 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 1.255 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us7000bds4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bds4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bds4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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