Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.1344 East, latitude -18.0396 South, depth = 18.31 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.31 km (11 miles). Event id: us20009yvq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009yvq. The temblor was picked up at 19:59:08 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/17 / 2017-07-21 08:59:08 / July 21, 2017 @ 8:59 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 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 one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 92 km ESE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	169.1344° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.0396° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	92km ESE 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	2017-07-21 08:59:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-21 09:20:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	660	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.66	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	466	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	3.257	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20009yvq	Id of event.
Event Code	20009yvq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009yvq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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