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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on January 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.4534S, 167.2523WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:28:11 / 1:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 167.2523 East, latitude -14.4534 South, depth = 138.429 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 138.429 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/12/24 / 2024-12-20 13:28:11 / December 20, 2024 @ 1:28 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000phjv. Event ids that are associated: us6000phjv.

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2523° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.4534° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 138.429 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-20 13:28:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-08 11:39:53 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 246 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.691 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us6000phjv Id of event.
Event Code 6000phjv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000phjv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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