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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on February 16, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.9447S, 167.6152WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.6152 East, latitude -17.9447 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/21 / 2021-02-16 03:37:11 / February 16, 2021 @ 3:37 am. Unique identifier: us6000dhyf. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dhyf. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:37:11 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 77 km WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.6152° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9447° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km WSW 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 2021-02-16 03:37:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-16 03:55:16 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 3.539 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us6000dhyf Id of event.
Event Code 6000dhyf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dhyf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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