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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.1262S, 167.8555WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 175.655 km, 167.8555° East, -16.1262° South. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:40:13 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/24 / 2024-10-19 23:40:13 / October 19, 2024 @ 11:40 pm. Event id: us7000nqgg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nqgg. The epicenter was at a depth of 175.655 km (109 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 47 km E of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.8555° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.1262° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 175.655 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47 km E 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 2024-10-19 23:40:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-14 03:44:49 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 259 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.554 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 274 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 us7000nqgg Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqgg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqgg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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