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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on August 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.8544S, 167.1292WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/07/16 / 2016-07-16 02:39:58 / July 16, 2016 @ 2:39 am. Event id: us20006gej. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gej. Exact location of event, longitude 167.1292 East, latitude -16.8544 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:39:58 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 87 km SSW of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.1292° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.8544° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km SSW of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-16 02:39:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-10 23:30:02 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 3.903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us20006gej Id of event.
Event Code 20006gej An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gej, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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