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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.1015S, 166.9802WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Unique identifier: us70008rqt. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008rqt. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.26 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 05:20:08 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.9802 East, latitude -15.1015 South, depth = 34.26 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/04/20 / 2020-04-03 18:20:08 / April 3, 2020 @ 6:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville. Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-one 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data 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 166.9802° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.1015° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SW 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 2020-04-03 18:20:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-01 15:04:08 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 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 0.405 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us70008rqt Id of event.
Event Code 70008rqt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008rqt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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