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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on December 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.8684S, 167.2875WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The temblor was reported at 09:15:11 / 9:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 151.91 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 167.2875° East, latitude -14.8684° South, depth = 151.91 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/18 / 2018-12-26 22:15:11 / December 26, 2018 @ 10:15 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000ixur. Event ids that are associated: us2000ixur. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville. Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2875° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.8684° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NE 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 2018-12-26 22:15:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-26 22:33:25 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 7.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us2000ixur Id of event.
Event Code 2000ixur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ixur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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