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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on June 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.1578S, 167.2896WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Friday. Id of earthquake: us1000ee4l. Event ids that are associated: us1000ee4l. Exact location of event, longitude 167.2896 East, latitude -15.1578 South, depth = 122.57 km. Global time and date of event 24/05/18 / 2018-05-24 20:53:12 / May 24, 2018 @ 8:53 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122.57 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:53:12 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 28 km ESE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2896° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.1578° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km ESE 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 2018-05-24 20:53:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-12 20:39:43 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 312 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 5.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us1000ee4l Id of event.
Event Code 1000ee4l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ee4l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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