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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -20.5876S, 169.8957WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 132 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu (82 miles). Id of earthquake: us20002q0a. Event ids that are associated: us20002q0a. The temblor was detected at 02:15:35 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 169.8957 East, latitude -20.5876 South, depth = 115.71 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 115.71 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/06/15 / 2015-06-05 15:15:35 / June 5, 2015 @ 3:15 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 132 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.8957° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.5876° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km 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 2015-06-05 15:15:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-04 20:42:33 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 259 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 3.042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us20002q0a Id of event.
Event Code 20002q0a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002q0a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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