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Strong earthquake: M6.8 quake has struck near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.5S, 167.2WA earthquake with magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 175 km (109 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Port-Olry in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 175 km, 167.2° East, -14.5° South. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:52:14 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 13:52:14 / May 9, 2017 @ 1:52 pm. Unique identifier: at00opouj1. Ids that are associated to the event: pt17129002, at00opouj1.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Sola. Epicenter of the event was 113 km (71 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 62 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.5° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 175 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km NNE 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 2017-05-09 13:52:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-09 14:01:11 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 1 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 711 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.421881 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28.799997696 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00opouj1 Id of event.
Event Code 00opouj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt17129002,at00opouj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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