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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Luganville in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.4842S, 166.9635WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/21 / 2021-01-14 12:39:38 / January 14, 2021 @ 12:39 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000d2e9. Event ids that are associated: us7000d2e9. The temblor was detected at 12:39:38 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 166.9635° East, -15.4842° South, depth 58.7 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 58.7 km (36 miles).

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 Lakatoro, Luganville. The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km W of Luganville, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.9635° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.4842° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km W of Luganville, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-14 12:39:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-09 09:58:05 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 326 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 0.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us7000d2e9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2e9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2e9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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