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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.3575S, 167.9629WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Event id: us10003yha. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003yha. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.9629 East, latitude -14.3575 South, depth = 117.27 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/11/15 / 2015-11-15 09:32:11 / November 15, 2015 @ 9:32 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:32:11 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 117.27 km (73 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty-nine 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. 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: 68 km SE of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.9629° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.3575° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SE of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-15 09:32:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-15 09:48:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 1.308 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us10003yha Id of event.
Event Code 10003yha An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yha, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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