Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 102.192 km (63 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:43:00 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/24 / 2024-08-03 23:43:00 / August 3, 2024 @ 11:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 102.192 km, 167.3984° East, -15.0934° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n8nl. Id of event: us7000n8nl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-two 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.3984° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.0934° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	102.192 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-03 23:43:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-22 22:28:39	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	284	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.184	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	186	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	us7000n8nl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n8nl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n8nl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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