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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on June 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.819S, 168.0229WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ey2i. Unique identifier: us1000ey2i. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.82 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 21.82 km, 168.0229° East, -17.819° South. Global time and date of event 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 21:13:32 / June 21, 2018 @ 9:13 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:13:32 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 33 km WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0229° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.819° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-21 21:13:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-21 21:41:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.88 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 580 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 3.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us1000ey2i Id of event.
Event Code 1000ey2i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ey2i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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