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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 167 km SSE of Alo, Wallis and Futuna


Earthquake location -15.7392S, -177.5841WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 167 km SSE of Alo, Wallis and Futuna (104 miles) on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us7000nvn4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nvn4. Exact location of event, longitude -177.5841 West, latitude -15.7392 South, depth = 424.698 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 424.698 km (264 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:28:45 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/24 / 2024-12-03 15:28:45 / December 3, 2024 @ 3:28 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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: 167 km SSE of Alo, Wallis and Futuna.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.5841° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.7392° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 424.698 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 167 km SSE of Alo, Wallis and Futuna Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-03 15:28:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-03 22:02:08 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 271 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 113 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us7000nvn4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nvn4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nvn4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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