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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on December 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8389S, 167.9946WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 03:48:18 / December 17, 2024 @ 3:48 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000nzg6. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nzg6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.851 km (35 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:48:18 / 3:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 167.9946° East, -17.8389° South, depth 56.851 km.

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 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 six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 35 km WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.9946° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8389° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.851 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-17 03:48:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-17 04:13:44 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us7000nzg6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzg6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzg6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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