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

Posted by admin on May 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.6509S, 167.1628WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 163.865 km (102 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 167.1628° East, latitude -14.6509° South, depth = 163.865 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:17:42 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/24 / 2024-05-04 03:17:42 / May 4, 2024 @ 3:17 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000mw9b. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mw9b.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Sola (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.1628° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.6509° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 163.865 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-04 03:17:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-04 03:36:31 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.452 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us6000mw9b Id of event.
Event Code 6000mw9b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mw9b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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