Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Sola in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/12/17 / 2017-12-23 15:30:03 / December 23, 2017 @ 3:30 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 201.55 km (125 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.0881 East, latitude -13.2462 South, depth = 201.55 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:30:03 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bvda. Id of event: us1000bvda.

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.0881° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-13.2462° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	201.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km NW 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	2017-12-23 15:30:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-23 15:45:11	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	385	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	7.49	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us1000bvda	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bvda	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bvda,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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