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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -12.5796S, 167.0469WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 154 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu (96 miles). 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: 22/08/19 / 2019-08-22 22:54:26 / August 22, 2019 @ 10:54 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 167.0469 East, latitude -12.5796 South, depth = 213.34 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 213.34 km (133 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700057bs. Id of event: us700057bs. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:54:26 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 154 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.0469° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.5796° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 213.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 154km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-22 22:54:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-22 23:11:57 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 3.301 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 482 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 2.854 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us700057bs Id of event.
Event Code 700057bs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700057bs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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