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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -18.1333S, 168.9794WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/10/24 / 2024-10-22 22:46:17 / October 22, 2024 @ 10:46 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:46:17 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nr6x. Unique identifier: us7000nr6x. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.9794 East, latitude -18.1333 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km ESE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.9794° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1333° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km ESE 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 2024-10-22 22:46:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-20 03:41:48 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us7000nr6x Id of event.
Event Code 7000nr6x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nr6x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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