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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.3484S, 168.1584WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.06 km (7 miles). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:48:21 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 12.06 km, 168.1584° East, -16.3484° South. Id of earthquake: us2000iu3c. Event ids that are associated: us2000iu3c. 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: 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 09:48:21 / December 16, 2018 @ 9:48 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro. Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 83 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.1584° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.3484° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km ESE 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 2018-12-16 09:48:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-16 10:40:20 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 5.68 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 465 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 5.565 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 44 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 us2000iu3c Id of event.
Event Code 2000iu3c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iu3c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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