Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 119 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu (74 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 35.35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iu3d. Id of event: us2000iu3d. The temblor was picked up at 21:31:14 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.4744 East, latitude -16.4709 South, depth = 35.35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 10:31:14 / December 16, 2018 @ 10:31 am UTC/GMT.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 119 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.4744° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.4709° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	119km 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	2018-12-16 10:31:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-16 10:59:30	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	354	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	5.679	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.26 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	us2000iu3d	Id of event.
Event Code	2000iu3d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000iu3d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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