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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.8808S, 169.1348WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude 169.1348 East, latitude -19.8808 South, depth = 53.71 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70006ajt. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006ajt. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.71 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/11/19 / 2019-11-13 21:50:14 / November 13, 2019 @ 9:50 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:50:14 / 8:50 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel (min 5000 pop).

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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.1348° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.8808° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km SSW 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 2019-11-13 21:50:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-22 06:01:35 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 312 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 1.898 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us70006ajt Id of event.
Event Code 70006ajt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006ajt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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