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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Luganville in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.174S, 168.2267WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 120 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu (75 miles) on Friday. Unique identifier: us6000n0i9. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n0i9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.89 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/24 / 2024-05-17 18:36:25 / May 17, 2024 @ 6:36 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.2267 East, latitude -15.174 South, depth = 9.89 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:36:25 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 120 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.2267° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.174° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120 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 2024-05-17 18:36:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-08 21:45:59 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us6000n0i9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000n0i9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n0i9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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