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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on February 16, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.6439S, 167.6964WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/21 / 2021-02-16 01:22:19 / February 16, 2021 @ 1:22 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.6964 East, latitude -17.6439 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dhxs. Id of event: us6000dhxs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:22:19 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 66 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.6964° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6439° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km W 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 01:22:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-16 01:36:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 466 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 4.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us6000dhxs Id of event.
Event Code 6000dhxs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dhxs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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