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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on September 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.0873S, 167.6346WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us2000akt9. Event ids that are associated: us2000akt9. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/09/17 / 2017-09-12 14:48:34 / September 12, 2017 @ 2:48 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:48:34 / 1:48 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.02 km (25 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.6346 East, latitude -14.0873 South, depth = 41.02 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km SSE of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.6346° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.0873° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSE of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-12 14:48:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-12 15:55:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 340 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 6.663 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 120 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 us2000akt9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000akt9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000akt9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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