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

Posted by admin on March 15, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.6122S, 168.0413WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/02/21 / 2021-02-18 03:20:07 / February 18, 2021 @ 3:20 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:20:07 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000dkp7. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dkp7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 168.0413° East, -17.6122° South, depth 10 km.

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 32 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0413° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6122° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-18 03:20:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-15 01:04:58 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 2.298 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us6000dkp7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dkp7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dkp7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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