Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 199 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 199 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu (124 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/06/19 / 2019-06-19 23:15:02 / June 19, 2019 @ 11:15 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:15:02 / 10:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 166.1893 East, latitude -12.6684 South, depth = 20.89 km. Id of earthquake: us600043e4. Event ids that are associated: us600043e4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.89 km (13 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 199 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	166.1893° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.6684° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	199km NW 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	2019-06-19 23:15:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-19 23:34:39	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	4.017	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	518	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	2.932	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us600043e4	Id of event.
Event Code	600043e4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600043e4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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