Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 207 km SE of Isangel, Vanuatu

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 207 km SE of Isangel, Vanuatu (129 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:18:18 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 152 km, 170.5993° East, -20.9464° South. Id of earthquake: us7000d0xn. Event ids that are associated: us7000d0xn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/01/21 / 2021-01-17 16:18:18 / January 17, 2021 @ 4:18 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 152 km (94 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 207 km SE of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	170.5993° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.9464° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	152 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	207 km SE of Isangel, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-17 16:18:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-17 16:41:24	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	312	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	2.455	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us7000d0xn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000d0xn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000d0xn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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