Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Sigave in Wallis and Futuna

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Sigave in Wallis and Futuna. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 16/08/15 / 2015-08-16 03:37:57 / August 16, 2015 @ 3:37 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us20003fd4. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003fd4. Exact location of event, longitude -177.5532 West, latitude -14.9127 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:37:57 / 3:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sigavé, Alo. Close country/countries, Wallis and Futuna (c. 16 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Sigavé (c. 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Alo (c. 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 94 km SE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.5532° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.9127° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	94km SE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-16 03:37:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-09 22:56:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	5.072	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	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	us20003fd4	Id of event.
Event Code	20003fd4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003fd4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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