Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Sola in Vanuatu

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 167 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu (104 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/07/24 / 2024-07-10 01:37:36 / July 10, 2024 @ 1:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.9785 East, latitude -12.4698 South, depth = 200.111 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n0ak. Unique identifier: us7000n0ak. The epicenter was at a depth of 200.111 km (124 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:37:36 / 1:37 am (local time epicenter).

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 four, in the past 30 days ten 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.

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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. 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: 167 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	166.9785° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.4698° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	200.111 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	167 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	2024-07-10 01:37:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-21 21:28:39	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	259	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	21.274	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us7000n0ak	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n0ak	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n0ak,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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