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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.2663S, 169.1929WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Vanuatu kilometers (0 miles) from Vanuatu. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ngwr. Unique identifier: us7000ngwr. Global time and date of event 27/09/24 / 2024-09-27 22:04:23 / September 27, 2024 @ 10:04 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:04:23 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.398 km (80 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 129.398 km, 169.1929° East, -19.2663° South.

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.1929° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.2663° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.398 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-27 22:04:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-27 22:23:44 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.708 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us7000ngwr Id of event.
Event Code 7000ngwr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ngwr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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