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


Earthquake location -14.926S, 167.3646WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location, longitude 167.3646° East, latitude -14.926° South, depth = 120.52 km. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:50:01 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120.52 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/07/20 / 2020-07-05 18:50:01 / July 5, 2020 @ 6:50 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000aid9. Unique identifier: us7000aid9.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 118 km (73 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola, Luganville (min 5000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ENE of Port-Olry, 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 167.3646° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.926° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-05 18:50:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-05 19:07:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 4.158 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 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 0.541 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us7000aid9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000aid9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aid9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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