Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Luganville in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu. Event id: us6000mxcp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mxcp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/24 / 2024-05-09 03:08:48 / May 9, 2024 @ 3:08 am. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:08:48 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 168.0251° East, -15.1583° South, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 101 km (63 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 100 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.0251° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.1583° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	100 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	2024-05-09 03:08:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-09 03:25:18	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	400	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.436	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us6000mxcp	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mxcp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mxcp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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