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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on October 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.4415S, 167.3852WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/20 / 2020-10-28 14:12:56 / October 28, 2020 @ 2:12 pm. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:12:56 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 178.34 km (111 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c6sn. Id of event: us7000c6sn. Exact location of earthquake, 167.3852° East, -14.4415° South, depth 178.34 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 SSW of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3852° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.4415° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 178.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km SSW of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-28 14:12:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-28 14:34:46 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 3.751 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 1.015 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 53 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 us7000c6sn Id of event.
Event Code 7000c6sn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c6sn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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