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Strong earthquake 6.9 mag, 109 km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu

Posted by admin on April 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.1101S, 166.5675WA earthquake with magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 109 kilometers (68 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, 166.5675° East, -14.1101° South, depth 33.71 km. Global time and date of event 06/04/16 / 2016-04-06 06:58:50 / April 6, 2016 @ 6:58 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sola in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:58:50 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt16097050, at00o57a23, us20005fsi. Id of event: us20005fsi. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.71 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 109 km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.5675° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.1101° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109km WSW 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 2016-04-06 06:58:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-06 07:20:06 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 6.16 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 732 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 ,pt,at,us, 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 6.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 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 us20005fsi Id of event.
Event Code 20005fsi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt16097050,at00o57a23,us20005fsi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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