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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on August 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.3198S, 167.1749WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. The epicenter was at a depth of 114.65 km (71 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 167.1749° East, latitude -14.3198° South, depth = 114.65 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700057v4. Id of event: us700057v4. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/08/19 / 2019-08-24 15:51:27 / August 24, 2019 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:51:27 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 63 km SW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.1749° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.3198° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SW 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 2019-08-24 15:51:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-24 16:07:44 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 4.352 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 554 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 1.121 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us700057v4 Id of event.
Event Code 700057v4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700057v4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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