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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.9058S, 167.2937WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:05:59 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005c7x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005c7x. Exact location of event, depth 136.81 km, 167.2937° East, -14.9058° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 136.81 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/03/16 / 2016-03-24 15:05:59 / March 24, 2016 @ 3:05 pm.

Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 30 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2937° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9058° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 136.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-24 15:05:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-24 15:43:17 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us20005c7x Id of event.
Event Code 20005c7x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005c7x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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