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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Isangel in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on February 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.3053S, 168.8042WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 06:50:47 / February 13, 2020 @ 6:50 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114.58 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70007p7m. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007p7m. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.8042 East, latitude -19.3053 South, depth = 114.58 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:50:47 / 5:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel (min 5000 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 four and in the last 365 days thirty-nine 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 55 km WNW of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.8042° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.3053° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km WNW 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 2020-02-13 06:50:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-13 07:08:37 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 400 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 2.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us70007p7m Id of event.
Event Code 70007p7m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007p7m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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