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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 86 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -13.5934S, 166.8053WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 23:49:03 / July 17, 2015 @ 11:49 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 166.8053° East, -13.5934° South, depth 70.94 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:49:03 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.94 km (44 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002ya5. Id of event: us20002ya5.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola. Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 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 one and in the last 365 days nineteen 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.8053° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.5934° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km WNW 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 2015-07-17 23:49:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 00:08:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.882 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us20002ya5 Id of event.
Event Code 20002ya5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ya5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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