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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.1673S, 168.4862WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 06:29:15 / 6:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 168.4862° East, -17.1673° South, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us7000bj71. Event ids that are associated: us7000bj71. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/09/20 / 2020-09-07 06:29:15 / September 7, 2020 @ 6:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close 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 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km NNE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.4862° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.1673° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km NNE 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 2020-09-07 06:29:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-07 06:47:58 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 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 500 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 2.107 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us7000bj71 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bj71 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bj71, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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