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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -18.9S, 169.4258WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 239.68 km (149 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000epts. Unique identifier: us1000epts. Exact location of event, depth 239.68 km, 169.4258° East, -18.9° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/06/18 / 2018-06-13 10:33:11 / June 13, 2018 @ 10:33 am. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:33:11 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 fourty-seven 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 73 km NNE of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.4258° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.9° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 239.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km NNE of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-13 10:33:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-13 10:52:12 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 2.778 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 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 us1000epts Id of event.
Event Code 1000epts An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000epts, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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