USGS Home
Contact USGS
Search USGS

Earthquake Hazards Program

Skip to main content

Home

Earthquake
Center

Regional
Information

About
Earthquakes

Research
& Monitoring

Other
Resources

You are here: Home » Earthquake Center » Latest Earthquakes -
World » Magnitude 5.2 - VANUATU

Latest
Earthquakes

USA

World

EQ
Notification Service

Feeds & Data

Animations

Recent
Earthquakes:Last 8-30 Days

Historic
Earthquakes

"Top 10" Lists &
Maps

Significant
EQs

Earthquake Search

EQ Summary
Posters

Scientific
Data

About EQ Maps

Did
You Feel It?

Fast Moment
Tensors

Media Info

PAGER

Seismogram
Displays

ShakeMaps

Magnitude 5.2 - VANUATU

2008 January 19 19:33:48 UTC

Versión en
Español

Details

Summary

Maps

Scientific
& Technical

Where can I
find...?

Earthquake Details

Magnitude

5.2

Date-Time

Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 19:33:48 UTC

Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 06:33:48 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location

14.945°S, 167.374°E

Depth

117.9 km (73.3 miles) set by location program

Region

VANUATU

Distances

70 km (45 miles) NNE of
Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
325 km (200 miles) NNW of
PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu
495 km (310 miles) SSE of Lata,
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Isl.
2040 km (1260 miles) NE of
BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

Location
Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 6.6 km (4.1 miles); depth fixed by location
program

Parameters

Nst= 65, Nph= 65, Dmin=794.2 km, Rmss=0.87 sec, Gp=
61°,
M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=Q

Source

USGS NEIC
(WDCS-D)

Event
ID

us2008mjbe

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Did
you feel it?
Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also
view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

Earthquake Summary

Tsunami Information

NOAA West Coast & Alaska Tsunami
Warning Center

NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning
Center

The earthquake locations and magnitudes cited in these NOAA tsunami
bulletins are very preliminary and may be superceded by USGS locations and
magnitudes computed using more extensive data sets.

Tsunami
Information Links

Earthquake Maps

Earthquake Location

Location Maps

Did You Feel It? Tell
Us

Historical Seismicity

Seismic Hazard Map

EQ Density Map

Google Map

Google Earth KML
(Requires Google Earth)

Scientific & Technical Information

Historic Moment
Tensor Solutions

Phase Data

Theoretical P-Wave
Travel Times

Preliminary Earthquake Report

U.S. Geological Survey, National
Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for
Seismology, Denver

In
partnership with nehrp

About
Us

Contact Us

Site
Map

Search

Accessibility FOIA
Privacy Policies and Notices

U.S. Department of the Interior
| U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008mjbe.php
Page
Contact Information: Web
Team
Page Last Modified: January 19, 2008 2:33:06 PM.