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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.9999S, 167.4348WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/02/21 / 2021-02-23 18:16:44 / February 23, 2021 @ 6:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000dkgd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dkgd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 99.76 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:16:44 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 167.4348° East, -14.9999° South, depth 99.76 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 39 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4348° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9999° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 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 2021-02-23 18:16:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-23 19:03:57 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 312 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 6.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us6000dkgd Id of event.
Event Code 6000dkgd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dkgd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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