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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 288 km ENE of Sola, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -12.7229S, 169.9375WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 288 km ENE of Sola, Vanuatu (179 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 02:04:26 / December 20, 2018 @ 2:04 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 651.96 km (405 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000iv7p. Event ids that are associated: us2000iv7p. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.9375 East, latitude -12.7229 South, depth = 651.96 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:04:26 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 288 km ENE of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.9375° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.7229° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 651.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 288km ENE of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-20 02:04:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-20 02:19:55 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 400 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 3.79 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us2000iv7p Id of event.
Event Code 2000iv7p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iv7p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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