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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Luganville in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on September 14, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.2992S, 168.1535WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 109 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu (68 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 02:03:00 / September 14, 2024 @ 2:03 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.264 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 168.1535 East, latitude -15.2992 South, depth = 12.264 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ndq3. Id of event: us7000ndq3. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:03:00 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 109 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.1535° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.2992° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.264 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109 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 2024-09-14 02:03:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-14 02:21:47 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us7000ndq3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndq3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndq3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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