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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on December 14, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.4222S, 167.6886WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006rem. Id of event: us60006rem. The temblor was detected at 15:57:37 / 3:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27 km (17 miles). Global time and date of event 14/12/19 / 2019-12-14 04:57:37 / December 14, 2019 @ 4:57 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 27 km, 167.6886° East, -14.4222° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 61 km SSE of Sola, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.6886° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.4222° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SSE 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 2019-12-14 04:57:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-14 05:15:54 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 536 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 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us60006rem Id of event.
Event Code 60006rem An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006rem, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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