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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 63 km NNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

Posted by admin on June 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.5224S, 166.8155WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 63 km NNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu (39 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.96 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us200065r4. Ids that are associated to the event: us200065r4. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/06/16 / 2016-06-15 01:18:37 / June 15, 2016 @ 1:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.8155 East, latitude -14.5224 South, depth = 39.96 km. The temblor was reported at 12:18:37 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km NNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.8155° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.5224° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-15 01:18:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-23 01:51:35 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 6.462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us200065r4 Id of event.
Event Code 200065r4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065r4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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