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

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Id of earthquake: us2000fwxz. Event ids that are associated: us2000fwxz. Exact location of event, longitude 167.4193 East, latitude -14.8995 South, depth = 118.53 km. Global time and date of event 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 16:37:03 / July 4, 2018 @ 4:37 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:37:03 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118.53 km (74 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 43 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.4193° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.8995° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	118.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km ENE 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	2018-07-04 16:37:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-04 16:53:26	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	4.6	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	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	5.848	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	140	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	us2000fwxz	Id of event.
Event Code	2000fwxz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000fwxz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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