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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on July 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.8575S, 167.3636WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20006ff8. Unique identifier: us20006ff8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 140.78 km (87 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/16 / 2016-07-17 23:07:17 / July 17, 2016 @ 11:07 pm. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:07:17 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 167.3636° East, latitude -14.8575° South, depth = 140.78 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 39 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3636° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.8575° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 140.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km ENE 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 2016-07-17 23:07:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-17 23:29:55 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 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 416 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.888 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 69 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 us20006ff8 Id of event.
Event Code 20006ff8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006ff8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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