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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 49 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu

Posted by admin on December 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.0814S, 168.0112WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.481 km (38 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 04:07:10 / December 17, 2024 @ 4:07 am. Event id: us7000nzg9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nzg9. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.0112 East, latitude -18.0814 South, depth = 60.481 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:07:10 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila. Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 49 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0112° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0814° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.481 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km SW 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 2024-12-17 04:07:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-17 04:39:41 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 340 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.29 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 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 us7000nzg9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzg9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzg9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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