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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on February 16, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8096S, 167.4675WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/21 / 2021-02-16 00:49:26 / February 16, 2021 @ 12:49 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port-Vila in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000dhxn. Ids that are associated to the event: pt21047000, us6000dhxn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 167.4675 East, latitude -17.8096 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:49:26 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 90 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4675° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8096° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 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 00:49:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-16 01:07:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 595 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 ,pt,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 3.69 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us6000dhxn Id of event.
Event Code 6000dhxn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt21047000,us6000dhxn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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