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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.9536S, 167.4036WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location, longitude 167.4036° East, latitude -14.9536° South, depth = 124.21 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/20 / 2020-11-10 22:24:42 / November 10, 2020 @ 10:24 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:24:42 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 124.21 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ceht. Unique identifier: us7000ceht.

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety-three 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4036° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9536° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km 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 2020-11-10 22:24:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-18 03:33:48 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 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 0.527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us7000ceht Id of event.
Event Code 7000ceht An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ceht, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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