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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Norsup in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on May 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.9776S, 167.2335WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Norsup in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 09:36:20 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10005eap. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005eap. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 167.2335° East, latitude -15.9776° South, depth = 32 km. Global time and date of event 28/04/16 / 2016-04-28 22:36:20 / April 28, 2016 @ 10:36 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Lakatoro. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km WNW of Norsup, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2335° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.9776° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WNW of Norsup, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-28 22:36:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-20 23:24:26 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 284 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 0.528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us10005eap Id of event.
Event Code 10005eap An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005eap, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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