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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -20.9775S, 169.9245WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 172 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu (107 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/07/19 / 2019-07-21 02:50:30 / July 21, 2019 @ 2:50 am. Exact location of event, longitude 169.9245 East, latitude -20.9775 South, depth = 102.64 km. Unique identifier: us70004pwu. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004pwu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 102.64 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:50:30 / 1:50 pm (local time epicenter).

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 seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 172 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.9245° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.9775° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 172km 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 2019-07-21 02:50:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-21 03:08:45 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 2.819 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us70004pwu Id of event.
Event Code 70004pwu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004pwu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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