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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on December 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.3241S, 167.9872WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. The temblor was reported at 18:19:05 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000itt6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000itt6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/12/18 / 2018-12-15 07:19:05 / December 15, 2018 @ 7:19 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.8 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.9872 East, latitude -16.3241 South, depth = 23.8 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro. Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 65 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.9872° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.3241° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-15 07:19:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-15 08:31:57 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 369 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 5.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us2000itt6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000itt6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000itt6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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