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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Luganville in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -15.3401S, 167.5595WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu. Unique identifier: us7000905x. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000905x. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/04/20 / 2020-04-20 00:34:34 / April 20, 2020 @ 12:34 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 108.64 km (68 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 167.5595 East, latitude -15.3401 South, depth = 108.64 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:34:34 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Luganville (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 47 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5595° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.3401° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km ENE 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 2020-04-20 00:34:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-20 00:56:34 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 416 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 6.124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us7000905x Id of event.
Event Code 7000905x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000905x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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