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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.0379S, 167.8787WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 159.99 km (99 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 159.99 km, 167.8787° East, -16.0379° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d764. Unique identifier: us6000d764. The temblor was reported at 06:48:20 / 6:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/01/21 / 2021-01-10 06:48:20 / January 10, 2021 @ 6:48 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Lakatoro. Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km E of Lakatoro, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.8787° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.0379° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 159.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km E of Lakatoro, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-10 06:48:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-10 07:08:20 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 4.039 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 554 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 0.876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us6000d764 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d764 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d764, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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