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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Sola in Vanuatu

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Earthquake location -12.0765S, 167.2386WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 201 km N of Sola, Vanuatu (125 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/24 / 2024-05-21 09:50:44 / May 21, 2024 @ 9:50 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:50:44 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n00g. Unique identifier: us6000n00g. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 261.886 km (163 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 167.2386 East, latitude -12.0765 South, depth = 261.886 km.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 three 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 201 km N of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2386° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.0765° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 261.886 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 201 km N of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-21 09:50:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-21 10:03:00 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.628 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us6000n00g Id of event.
Event Code 6000n00g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n00g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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