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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on July 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.3746S, 168.7164WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Global time and date of event 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 04:29:37 / July 28, 2018 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000gfwy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gfwy. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.7164 East, latitude -17.3746 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 15:29:37 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 57 km NE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.7164° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3746° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km NE 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 2018-07-28 04:29:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-28 05:12:48 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 3.1 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 200 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 3.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 221 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000gfwy Id of event.
Event Code 2000gfwy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gfwy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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