7.5 Quake Vanuatu (East of Aus.)

Earthquake Details

* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 7.5
Date-Time

* Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 16:55:02 UTC
* Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 03:55:02 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 18.259°S, 168.069°E
Depth 40.6 km (25.2 miles)
Region VANUATU
Distances 63 km (39 miles) SSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu
190 km (118 miles) NW of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu
316 km (196 miles) SSE of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
1850 km (1149 miles) ENE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 14.7 km (9.1 miles); depth +/- 6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Parameters NST= 65, Nph= 65, Dmin=455.3 km, Rmss=1.29 sec, Gp= 32°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8
Source

* Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0005h9f


That's a bigun..

There is no tsunami threat to Hawaii following a 7.5 magnitude quake near the Vanuatu Islands, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Source of above


Also, for those googling info on this quake, notice that many of the articles are from a 7.5 that hit the same region on Aug. 10, 2010, a year and 10 days ago. Odd. Similar small localized tsunami with that one too.

The quake hit at 3:55 a.m. local time. Estimations are there will be reports of light to moderate damage from the USGS.

Source

Too early in the morning there, not a lot of information available as of yet.

Daaaaaaaaaaang. It's been awhile since we've seen a decent sized earthquake.

Tsunami Alerts??


Shouldn't Australia be more concerned with a tsunami and not Hawaii...

reply to post by iamhobo


No immediate tsunami threat warnings issued.

Story out of Sydney