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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 190 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -21.1981S, 169.7829WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) has occurred on Friday, 190 kilometers (118 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. The temblor was reported at 19:13:14 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 99.14 km (62 miles). Global time of event 06/03/15 / 2015-03-06 08:13:14 / March 6, 2015 @ 8:13 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 169.7829 East, latitude -21.1981 South, depth 99.14 km, unique identifier, us10001l8u.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.7829° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.1981° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 190km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-03-06 08:13:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-29 13:29:05 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 298 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 3.225 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us10001l8u Id of event.
Event Code 10001l8u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10001l8u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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