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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on March 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -12.4869S, 166.5309WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 189 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu (117 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 42.26 km, 166.5309° East, -12.4869° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.26 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 12:49:14 / March 18, 2016 @ 12:49 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005aqk. Unique identifier: us20005aqk. The temblor was detected at 23:49:14 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter).

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 thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 189 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.5309° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.4869° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189km NW 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 2016-03-18 12:49:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 13:15:51 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 3.58 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 3.014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005aqk Id of event.
Event Code 20005aqk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005aqk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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