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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on October 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.4055S, 167.3413WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 00:27:41 / 12:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 174.08 km (108 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/19 / 2019-10-30 13:27:41 / October 30, 2019 @ 1:27 pm. Exact location of event, depth 174.08 km, 167.3413° East, -14.4055° South. Unique identifier: us600064uv. Ids that are associated to the event: us600064uv.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km SSW of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3413° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.4055° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 174.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km SSW 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 2019-10-30 13:27:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-31 05:39:33 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 1.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us600064uv Id of event.
Event Code 600064uv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600064uv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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