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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.961S, 167.4169WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/04/19 / 2019-04-10 21:18:21 / April 10, 2019 @ 9:18 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:18:21 / 8:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 167.4169° East, -14.961° South, depth 145.16 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us700037v4. Unique identifier: us700037v4. The epicenter was at a depth of 145.16 km (90 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 40 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4169° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.961° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 145.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km ENE 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 2019-04-10 21:18:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-19 23:45:32 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 298 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 7.132 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 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 us700037v4 Id of event.
Event Code 700037v4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700037v4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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