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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -12.6187S, 166.3883WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 187 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu (116 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:56:34 / 11:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 166.3883° East, -12.6187° South, depth 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/24 / 2024-12-08 23:56:34 / December 8, 2024 @ 11:56 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000p0ca. Unique identifier: us7000p0ca. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

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

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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 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: 187 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.3883° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.6187° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 187 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-08 23:56:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-23 01:52:15 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.92 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us7000p0ca Id of event.
Event Code 7000p0ca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p0ca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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