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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Lakatoro in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -16.3445S, 168.1292WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.07 km (30 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 168.1292° East, latitude -16.3445° South, depth = 48.07 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 02:43:48 / December 16, 2018 @ 2:43 am. Event id: us2000iu00. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iu00. The temblor was detected at 13:43:48 / 1:43 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

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

Did you feel the quake?

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: 80 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.1292° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.3445° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km 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 02:43:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-16 03:02:41 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 416 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 5.55 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000iu00 Id of event.
Event Code 2000iu00 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iu00, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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