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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.6671S, 167.5488WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes Vanuatu kilometers (0 miles) from Vanuatu on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 134.86 km (84 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:13:05 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 167.5488 East, latitude -14.6671 South, depth = 134.86 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/20 / 2020-03-02 14:13:05 / March 2, 2020 @ 2:13 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us60008b4g. Ids that are associated to the event: us60008b4g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 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 five and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5488° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.6671° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 134.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-02 14:13:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-08 15:41:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 0.844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us60008b4g Id of event.
Event Code 60008b4g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008b4g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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