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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on September 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.5596S, 167.6471WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 115 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu (71 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 01:58:49 / 1:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10006jaw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006jaw. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48.11 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.6471 East, latitude -18.5596 South, depth = 48.11 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/09/16 / 2016-09-01 14:58:49 / September 1, 2016 @ 2:58 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 115 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.6471° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.5596° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-01 14:58:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-15 17:00:54 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 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 2.239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10006jaw Id of event.
Event Code 10006jaw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006jaw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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