Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag was detected near Lakatoro in Vanuatu

A earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.34 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Lakatoro in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: pt18233001, at00pdu1a5, us1000gf2g. Unique identifier: us1000gf2g. The temblor was reported at 09:32:29 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/08/18 / 2018-08-21 22:32:29 / August 21, 2018 @ 10:32 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 168.1465° East, -16.0495° South, depth 30.34 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Lakatoro (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 121 km (75 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 78 km E of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

Lakatoro Luganville Vanuatu

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.1465° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.0495° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km E of Lakatoro, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-21 22:32:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-21 22:53:49	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	6.32	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	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	691	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	,pt,at,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	4.78	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwp	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000gf2g	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gf2g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt18233001,at00pdu1a5,us1000gf2g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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