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Strong earthquake: M6.1 quake has struck near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -18.7322S, 168.1028WA earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was reported 112 kilometers (70 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us60009zv5. Unique identifier: us60009zv5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:09:18 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 168.1028° East, -18.7322° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 07:09:18 / May 27, 2020 @ 7:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 112 km SSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.1028° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.7322° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km SSW 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 2020-05-27 07:09:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-27 07:31:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.797 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 573 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 3.853 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 us60009zv5 Id of event.
Event Code 60009zv5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009zv5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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