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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.4362S, 166.9834WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, 166.9834° East, -14.4362° South, depth 37.64 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:43:30 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 37.64 km (23 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000cie5. Event ids that are associated: us1000cie5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 00:43:30 / January 26, 2018 @ 12:43 am.

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

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 six and in the last 365 days fifty-eight 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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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: 68 km N of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.9834° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.4362° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km N 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 2018-01-26 00:43:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-08 23:49:15 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 284 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 6.602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 274 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 us1000cie5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cie5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cie5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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