Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, depth 124.6 km, 167.921° East, -14.9826° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:51:06 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/11/19 / 2019-11-12 15:51:06 / November 12, 2019 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60006aq5. Event ids that are associated: us60006aq5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 124.6 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Event epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 nine and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km E 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	167.921° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.9826° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	124.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93km E 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	2019-11-12 15:51:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-12 16:10:30	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	0.832	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us60006aq5	Id of event.
Event Code	60006aq5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60006aq5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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