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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on July 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.1859S, 168.0027WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 188.33 km (117 miles). Event id: us60004y56. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004y56. The temblor was reported at 06:11:44 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 19:11:44 / July 31, 2019 @ 7:11 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 168.0027 East, latitude -16.1859 South, depth = 188.33 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 63 km E of Lakatoro, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0027° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.1859° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 188.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km E 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 2019-07-31 19:11:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 19:29:05 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 6.037 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 62 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 us60004y56 Id of event.
Event Code 60004y56 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004y56, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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