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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on October 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.0477S, 167.9479WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 02:18:34 / 2:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000nz8e. Event ids that are associated: us6000nz8e. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/10/24 / 2024-10-17 02:18:34 / October 17, 2024 @ 2:18 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 167.9479° East, latitude -14.0477° South, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 46 km ESE of Sola, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.9479° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.0477° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km ESE 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 2024-10-17 02:18:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-17 02:36:21 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 385 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.351 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 162 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 us6000nz8e Id of event.
Event Code 6000nz8e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nz8e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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