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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Port-Olry in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.7927S, 167.5107WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 129.51 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 167.5107° East, latitude -14.7927° South, depth = 129.51 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:06:43 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dki5. Unique identifier: us6000dki5. Global time and date of event 23/02/21 / 2021-02-23 22:06:43 / February 23, 2021 @ 10:06 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola, Luganville.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.7927° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 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 2021-02-23 22:06:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-23 22:23:31 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 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 385 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 0.715 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000dki5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dki5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dki5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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