Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. The epicenter was at a depth of 163.233 km (101 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:07:22 / 7:07 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 07:07:22 / May 2, 2024 @ 7:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000mvmx. Event ids that are associated: us6000mvmx. Exact location of event, longitude 167.7997 East, latitude -15.9698 South, depth = 163.233 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Lakatoro (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km ENE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.7997° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.9698° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	163.233 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km ENE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-02 07:07:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-15 05:10:22	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	354	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.648	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	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	us6000mvmx	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mvmx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mvmx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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