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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.5753S, 167.5592WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 22:23:41 / 10:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us600079av. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600079av. Exact location of earthquake, 167.5592° East, -14.5753° South, depth 122.22 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122.22 km (76 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/01/20 / 2020-01-05 11:23:41 / January 5, 2020 @ 11:23 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 75 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5592° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.5753° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-05 11:23:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-22 06:36:36 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 284 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 0.932 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us600079av Id of event.
Event Code 600079av An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600079av, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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