Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

A earthquake magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port-Vila in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: at00qg9yl1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20251000, at00qg9yl1. Exact location of event, longitude 168.5 East, latitude -17.1 South, depth = 10 km. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:12:37 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/09/20 / 2020-09-07 06:12:37 / September 7, 2020 @ 6:12 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, 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. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year.

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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: 73 km NNE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.5° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.1° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73 km NNE 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	2020-09-07 06:12:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-07 06:21:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	1	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	670	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	8.982255	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	7.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	345.599972352	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00qg9yl1	Id of event.
Event Code	00qg9yl1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt20251000,at00qg9yl1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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