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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Luganville in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on May 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.2602S, 168.1213WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/24 / 2024-05-08 11:06:19 / May 8, 2024 @ 11:06 am. Event id: us6000mx7c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mx7c. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 168.1213° East, -15.2602° South. The temblor was picked up at 11:06:19 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 106 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.1213° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.2602° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-08 11:06:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 11:10:40 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 6.545 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 449 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.404 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us6000mx7c Id of event.
Event Code 6000mx7c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx7c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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