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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on June 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.3039S, 167.5458WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 00:12:42 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/06/19 / 2019-06-11 13:12:42 / June 11, 2019 @ 1:12 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us600042fc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600042fc. Exact location of event, depth 151.58 km, 167.5458° East, -14.3039° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 151.58 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 46 km S of Sola, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5458° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.3039° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km S of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-11 13:12:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-18 16:03:07 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 326 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 7.796 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us600042fc Id of event.
Event Code 600042fc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600042fc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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