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Light earthquake 4 mag, 183 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -20.9807S, 170.1501WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 183 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu (114 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 93.54 km (58 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/17 / 2017-02-05 06:34:47 / February 5, 2017 @ 6:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 170.1501 East, latitude -20.9807 South, depth = 93.54 km. Unique identifier: us20008kgv. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008kgv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:34:47 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 183 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 170.1501° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.9807° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 183km SSE 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 2017-02-05 06:34:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-04 14:13:06 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 246 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 2.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us20008kgv Id of event.
Event Code 20008kgv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008kgv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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