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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Luganville in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.2015S, 168.0141WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 98 kilometers (61 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.348 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 168.0141° East, -15.2015° South, depth 13.348 km. Global time and date of event 11/09/24 / 2024-09-11 19:22:55 / September 11, 2024 @ 7:22 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000nd53. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nd53. The temblor was reported at 19:22:55 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Luganville (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 98 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0141° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.2015° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.348 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 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 2024-09-11 19:22:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-11 19:44:24 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 518 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 86 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.395 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us7000nd53 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nd53 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nd53, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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