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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 158 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -12.5618S, 166.9971WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 158 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu (98 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002ned. Id of event: us10002ned. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 193.31 km (120 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 13:05:17 / July 4, 2015 @ 1:05 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:05:17 / 12:05 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, depth 193.31 km, 166.9971° East, -12.5618° South.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 158 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.9971° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.5618° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 193.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 158km NNW 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 2015-07-04 13:05:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-05 13:21:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 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 8.172 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us10002ned Id of event.
Event Code 10002ned An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002ned, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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