Strong earthquake: M6.8 quake strikes near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

A earthquake magnitude 6.8 (mg/mb) has striked on Friday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. The temblor was reported at 02:47:27 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 218.54 km (136 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-23 03:47:27 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port-Vila in Vanuatu, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 168.5314 East, latitude -17.0004 South, depth 218.54 km.

Close countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila.

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Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded in: 84 km NNE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.5314° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.0004° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	218.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	84km NNE 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	2015-01-23 03:47:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-01-23 04:07:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	660	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.65	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	1	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	711	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	ptusat	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.003	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwp	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	usc000tihy	Id of event.
Event Code	c000tihy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	pt15023000usc000tihyat00nim2j3	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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