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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Luganville in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.3837S, 167.4741WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 167.4741° East, latitude -15.3837° South, depth = 129.13 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.13 km (80 miles). Event id: us2000hfmc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hfmc. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/09/18 / 2018-09-17 00:24:15 / September 17, 2018 @ 12:24 am. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:24:15 / 11:24 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Luganville (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4741° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.3837° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-17 00:24:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-17 00:37:19 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 432 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 5.368 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 53 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 us2000hfmc Id of event.
Event Code 2000hfmc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hfmc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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