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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.451S, 167.7237WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 167.7237 East, latitude -17.451 South, depth = 6.67 km. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:44:06 / 2:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.67 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000djk6. Unique identifier: us6000djk6. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/02/21 / 2021-02-20 02:44:06 / February 20, 2021 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.7237° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.451° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km WNW 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 2021-02-20 02:44:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-20 03:04:51 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 3.725 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 482 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 2.054 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000djk6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000djk6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000djk6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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