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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Norsup in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.0093S, 167.4621WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Norsup in Vanuatu on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.6 km (21 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 167.4621° East, -16.0093° South, depth 33.6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/16 / 2016-07-26 08:04:20 / July 26, 2016 @ 8:04 am. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:04:20 / 7:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20006hpx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006hpx.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Lakatoro. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 10 km NE of Norsup, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4621° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.0093° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NE of Norsup, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-26 08:04:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-26 08:29:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.67 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 519 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 5.431 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us20006hpx Id of event.
Event Code 20006hpx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hpx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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