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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag strikes near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on February 18, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.0092S, 167.8888WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was reported 147 km SSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu (91 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 18/02/21 / 2021-02-18 06:37:30 / February 18, 2021 @ 6:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.8888 East, latitude -19.0092 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dila. Id of event: us6000dila. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:37:30 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 147 km SSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.8888° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.0092° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147 km SSW 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 2021-02-18 06:37:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-18 07:02:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.721 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 592 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 2.462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us6000dila Id of event.
Event Code 6000dila An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dila, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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