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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.9713S, 167.2393WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 12:21:19 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 01:21:19 / December 6, 2016 @ 1:21 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 167.2393° East, -14.9713° South, depth 107.67 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 107.67 km (67 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007f33. Unique identifier: us10007f33.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 22 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2393° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9713° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 2016-12-06 01:21:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 01:31:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 449 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 5.774 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 73 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 us10007f33 Id of event.
Event Code 10007f33 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007f33, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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