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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Luganville in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.5082S, 167.7054WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Event id: us600051r4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600051r4. Exact location of event, depth 123.3 km, 167.7054° East, -15.5082° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:32:40 / 4:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.3 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/19 / 2019-08-07 05:32:40 / August 7, 2019 @ 5:32 am.

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Luganville. Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 57 km E of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.7054° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.5082° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km E of Luganville, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-07 05:32:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-07 05:48:40 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 4.078 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 0.488 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 36 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 us600051r4 Id of event.
Event Code 600051r4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600051r4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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