Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Luganville in Vanuatu

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 15:22:32 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000cnnq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cnnq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/20 / 2020-12-06 15:22:32 / December 6, 2020 @ 3:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 115.6 km (72 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.6347 East, latitude -15.4035 South, depth = 115.6 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro, Luganville (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-six 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 52 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.6347° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.4035° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	115.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-06 15:22:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-06 15:52:36	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	326	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	0.418	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us7000cnnq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cnnq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cnnq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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