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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.9897S, 169.3085WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/24 / 2024-09-27 14:58:08 / September 27, 2024 @ 2:58 pm. Event id: us7000ngth. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ngth. Exact location, longitude 169.3085° East, latitude -19.9897° South, depth = 103.093 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 103.093 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:58:08 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 49 km (31 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 49 km S of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.3085° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.9897° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.093 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km S of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-27 14:58:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-27 15:12:34 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us7000ngth Id of event.
Event Code 7000ngth An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ngth, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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