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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -13.1711S, 167.2479WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 217.25 km, 167.2479° East, -13.1711° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/20 / 2020-09-11 19:05:55 / September 11, 2020 @ 7:05 pm. Event id: us7000bnza. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bnza. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:05:55 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 217.25 km (135 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 84 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2479° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.1711° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 217.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km NNW 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 2020-09-11 19:05:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-08 18:43:48 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 246 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 2.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 279 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 us7000bnza Id of event.
Event Code 7000bnza An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bnza, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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