Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. The temblor was reported at 07:59:14 / 7:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 192.61 km, 168.1534° East, -16.4243° South. Event id: us1000bwtn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bwtn. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/17 / 2017-12-27 20:59:14 / December 27, 2017 @ 8:59 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 192.61 km (120 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 85 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.1534° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.4243° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	192.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-27 20:59:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-27 21:18:08	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	4.415	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	us1000bwtn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bwtn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bwtn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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