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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -20.6288S, 169.8094WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 132 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu (82 miles) on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us60003rxb. Event ids that are associated: us60003rxb. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:09:19 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/19 / 2019-05-24 22:09:19 / May 24, 2019 @ 10:09 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 130.99 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 169.8094 East, latitude -20.6288 South, depth = 130.99 km.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 132 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.8094° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6288° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-24 22:09:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-24 22:27:38 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 385 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 2.954 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us60003rxb Id of event.
Event Code 60003rxb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003rxb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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