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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 31 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu

Posted by admin on December 18, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.6391S, 168.0346WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Global time and date of event 18/12/24 / 2024-12-18 17:53:26 / December 18, 2024 @ 5:53 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:53:26 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 67.244 km (42 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000nzux. Event ids that are associated: us7000nzux. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 67.244 km, 168.0346° East, -17.6391° South.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

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 four, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 31 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0346° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6391° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.244 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km WNW 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 2024-12-18 17:53:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-18 18:13:20 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 416 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 4.577 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us7000nzux Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzux An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzux, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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