Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, 167.1982° East, -14.7816° South, depth 96.53 km. Event id: us10006fi6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006fi6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 96.53 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:30:50 / 1:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/16 / 2016-08-21 02:30:50 / August 21, 2016 @ 2:30 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville. Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy 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: 33 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.1982° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.7816° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	96.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km 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	2016-08-21 02:30:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-21 02:49:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	660	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	400	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	6.373	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us10006fi6	Id of event.
Event Code	10006fi6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006fi6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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