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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on August 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.3278S, 168.0206WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.4 km (6 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:16:29 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 168.0206 East, latitude -17.3278 South, depth = 10.4 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 21:16:29 / August 23, 2020 @ 9:16 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bjil. Id of event: us6000bjil. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 54 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0206° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3278° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-23 21:16:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-23 21:38:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us6000bjil Id of event.
Event Code 6000bjil An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bjil, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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