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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -20.1899S, 169.7053WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. Event id: us70003diw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003diw. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:06:23 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 169.7053° East, latitude -20.1899° South, depth = 159.98 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/04/19 / 2019-04-28 21:06:23 / April 28, 2019 @ 9:06 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 159.98 km (99 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel. Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 84 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.7053° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1899° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 159.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-28 21:06:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-28 21:28:08 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 340 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 3.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us70003diw Id of event.
Event Code 70003diw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003diw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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