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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.2161S, 169.4071WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. The temblor was reported at 03:17:51 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007v73. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007v73. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 246.89 km (153 miles). Global time and date of event 24/01/17 / 2017-01-24 16:17:51 / January 24, 2017 @ 4:17 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.4071 East, latitude -19.2161 South, depth = 246.89 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Close 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 39 km NNE of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.4071° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.2161° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 246.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NNE 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 2017-01-24 16:17:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-24 16:37:23 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 385 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 2.562 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us10007v73 Id of event.
Event Code 10007v73 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007v73, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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