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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.038S, 168.0581WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.51 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:38:23 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/03/17 / 2017-03-07 23:38:23 / March 7, 2017 @ 11:38 pm. Exact location, longitude 168.0581° East, latitude -15.038° South, depth = 12.51 km. Id of earthquake: us100087kn. Event ids that are associated: us100087kn.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 110 km (68 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville (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 four and in the last 365 days sixty-five 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 108 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0581° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.038° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km E 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 2017-03-07 23:38:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-08 00:00:31 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 6.53 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 482 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 5.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100087kn Id of event.
Event Code 100087kn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100087kn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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