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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.9942S, 167.1549WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Event id: us7000c7g3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c7g3. The temblor was reported at 19:19:33 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.1549 East, latitude -14.9942 South, depth = 102.53 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 102.53 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/10/20 / 2020-10-23 19:19:33 / October 23, 2020 @ 7:19 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville. Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 10 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.1549° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9942° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 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 2020-10-23 19:19:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-18 17:48:04 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 298 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 0.452 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 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 us7000c7g3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c7g3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c7g3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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