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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Isangel in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on October 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.6017S, 168.8863WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.47 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 168.8863 East, latitude -19.6017 South, depth = 13.47 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 12/10/15 / 2015-10-12 06:44:30 / October 12, 2015 @ 6:44 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10003mxq. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003mxq. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:44:30 / 5:44 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel. Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 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: 40 km W of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.8863° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.6017° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km W 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 2015-10-12 06:44:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-12 07:59:52 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 354 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 2.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us10003mxq Id of event.
Event Code 10003mxq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003mxq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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