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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.9484S, 167.6193WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 96 km SSE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu (60 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000p02k. Unique identifier: us6000p02k. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.6193 East, latitude -16.9484 South, depth = 44.36 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/09/24 / 2024-09-29 00:30:47 / September 29, 2024 @ 12:30 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:30:47 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.36 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 96 km SSE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.6193° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.9484° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96 km SSE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-29 00:30:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-23 22:09:24 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 312 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us6000p02k Id of event.
Event Code 6000p02k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p02k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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