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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on January 18, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.5821S, 167.3419WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, 167.3419° East, -14.5821° South, depth 161.2 km. The temblor was reported at 07:17:16 / 7:17 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: 18/01/21 / 2021-01-18 07:17:16 / January 18, 2021 @ 7:17 am. Event id: us7000d11r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d11r. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 161.2 km (100 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 106 km (66 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Sola. Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 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 three and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3419° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.5821° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 161.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-18 07:17:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-18 07:36:17 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 432 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 0.87 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us7000d11r Id of event.
Event Code 7000d11r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d11r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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