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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 91 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.3755S, 167.5356WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, longitude 167.5356 East, latitude -17.3755 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 14/03/21 / 2021-03-14 09:14:12 / March 14, 2021 @ 9:14 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us7000dj8z. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000dj8z. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:14:12 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila.

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 91 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 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3755° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 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 2021-03-14 09:14:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-14 09:34:48 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 416 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 1.943 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us7000dj8z Id of event.
Event Code 7000dj8z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dj8z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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