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Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag has occurred near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -13.396S, 166.619WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 114 kilometers (71 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.619 East, latitude -13.396 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/01/19 / 2019-01-15 18:06:38 / January 15, 2019 @ 6:06 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sola in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 6.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:06:38 / 5:06 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: at00pldwz2. Ids that are associated to the event: pt19015000, at00pldwz2.

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 114 km (71 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 114 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.619° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.396° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km WNW 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 2019-01-15 18:06:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 18:16:49 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 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 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 711 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115.199990784 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pldwz2 Id of event.
Event Code 00pldwz2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19015000,at00pldwz2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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