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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Isangel in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on September 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.1725S, 168.9936WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu on Saturday. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:27:57 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 25.56 km (16 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005cu5. Id of event: us70005cu5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.9936 East, latitude -20.1725 South, depth = 25.56 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/09/19 / 2019-09-06 15:27:57 / September 6, 2019 @ 3:27 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 74 km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.9936° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1725° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-06 15:27:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-06 15:46:04 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 3.722 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 2.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us70005cu5 Id of event.
Event Code 70005cu5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005cu5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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