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Light earthquake 4 mag, 16 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.9788S, 167.2103WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, longitude 167.2103 East, latitude -14.9788 South, depth = 127.723 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nmxf. Id of event: us7000nmxf. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:58:12 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 127.723 km (79 miles). Global time and date of event 05/10/24 / 2024-10-05 15:58:12 / October 5, 2024 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville. Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (38 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 16 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2103° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9788° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.723 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km ENE 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 2024-10-05 15:58:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-31 17:27:39 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 246 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 us7000nmxf Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmxf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmxf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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