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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on September 29, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.944S, 168.2406WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Monday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:38:54 / 6:38 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 18:38:54 / September 16, 2024 @ 6:38 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 168.2406 East, latitude -17.944 South, depth = 52.741 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.741 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ng9q. Id of event: us7000ng9q.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km SSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.2406° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.944° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.741 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km SSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-16 18:38:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-29 12:47:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 285 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 4.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us7000ng9q Id of event.
Event Code 7000ng9q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ng9q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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