Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu on Friday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:03:50 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 167.9497° East, -15.9838° South, depth 160.81 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/03/21 / 2021-03-12 01:03:50 / March 12, 2021 @ 1:03 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000dia4. Id of event: us7000dia4. The epicenter was at a depth of 160.81 km (100 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Lakatoro. Event epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 58 km ENE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.9497° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.9838° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	160.81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km ENE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-03-12 01:03:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-12 01:22:16	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	416	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	0.895	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us7000dia4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000dia4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000dia4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information