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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 129 km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -20.6102S, 168.741WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 129 km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu (80 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:31:19 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.741 East, latitude -20.6102 South, depth = 18.11 km. Global time and date of event 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 10:31:19 / June 16, 2016 @ 10:31 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us200064r7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200064r7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.11 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 129 km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.741° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6102° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-16 10:31:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-16 10:45:33 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 1.091 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us200064r7 Id of event.
Event Code 200064r7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064r7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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