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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.9929S, 168.6315WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.6315 East, latitude -17.9929 South, depth = 149.8 km. Event id: us600051m3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600051m3. The temblor was reported at 09:14:14 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/08/19 / 2019-08-06 22:14:14 / August 6, 2019 @ 10:14 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 149.8 km (93 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.6315° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9929° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 149.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-06 22:14:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-06 22:30:24 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 536 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 2.877 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us600051m3 Id of event.
Event Code 600051m3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600051m3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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