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USGS said the quake hit about 178 kilometres (110 miles) northwest of the capital Port Vila at 2:02 am (1502 GMT Wednesday) at a depth of 179 kilometres.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from the quake.
Earthquakes
USGS said the quake hit about 178 kilometres (110 miles) northwest of the capital Port Vila at 2:02 am (1502 GMT Wednesday) at a depth of 179 kilometres.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from the quake.
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Here the anomaly can be seen at station SC14, boxed in red. It repeated once in this instance, as it usually does (June 26, 2019). (Each horizontal line represents an hour.)
Here the anomaly can be seen at station SC14, boxed in red. It repeated once in this instance, as it usually does (June 26, 2019). (Each horizontal line represents an hour.)
However, these marks were spaced very regularly, so regularly that at first glance they looked like some sort of mechanical noise.
The problem with that assumption was that they were showing up on stations all across the state, all at the same time. Anything that widespread is usually associated with a correspondingly large scale event, like an earthquake.
This pattern we were seeing looked nothing like an earthquake, or even a series of earthquakes. Other potential causes we guessed at were military aircraft, meteor shower, or something related to gas pipelines. We dubbed this acoustic pattern 'The Anomaly.'
Curious about what we were seeing, and what our sensors were hearing, we attempted to locate a potential source for individual pulses from the pattern.
This produced nothing but garbage location potentials with errors so high it was useless. We also attempted locating a source using the first arrival time of the pattern at various stations where it was clearly discernible.
This yielded a more interesting result. It still failed to yield a location, however, by plotting out the first arrival times on a map, the anomaly arrived in a 'ping pong' like pattern back and forth across the state, mainly in a swath from Tulsa, across OKC and toward Lawton.
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Epicentre of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck near the south coast of Japan's island of Honshu early Jul 28, 2019.
Epicentre of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck near the south coast of Japan's island of Honshu early Jul 28, 2019.
The estimated population of the area where the earthquake was felt is 30 million inhabitants, EMSC said.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Source: Reuters
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The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Hekla may have led to the collapse of multiple thriving Bronze Age societies.
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Hekla may have led to the collapse of multiple thriving Bronze Age societies.
The Storegga Slides
Until about 8,000 years ago, the British Isles were a peninsula, joined to mainland Europe by a strip of chalk downs, swamps, lakes and wooded hills. Today, we call this submerged world Doggerland.
Today, fishermen routinely bring up carved bone and antler tools from the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who lived here. But by the end of the 7th millennium BC, a warming world caused sea levels to rise. The people of Doggerland must have watched with dread as their villages were swallowed up one by one. But one event would turn the slow advance of the sea into an apocalyptic terror.
The edge of the Norwegian continental shelf is an underwater cliff that runs for six hundred miles along the Atlantic Basin. And one autumn day around 6225-6170 BCE, this cliff collapsed. An estimated 770 cubic miles, or over 50 Mount Everests, of rock broke off and slid into the deep ocean. The rubble flow reached a speed of 90 mph underwater.
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Substantial damage is being reported in Itbayat municipality after two consecutive earthquakes measuring 5.4 and 5.9 struck the region around 4:16am and 7:30am local time, followed by an aftershock. Amid ongoing large scale rescue operations a third quake measuring 5.7 struck the same area at 09:24am.
Eight people were killed and 60 others injured, according to preliminary information from Batanes Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.
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The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 61.2936 degrees south latitude and 154.063 degrees east longitude.
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Damage is seen on the Church of the Pantanassa following an earthquake in Athens, Greece. July 19, 2019.
Damage is seen on the Church of the Pantanassa following an earthquake in Athens, Greece. July 19, 2019.
A strong earthquake has struck near Athens, causing residents of the Greek capital to run into the streets.
The city's Institute of Geodynamics gave the earthquake a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 but the US Geological Survey gave it a preliminary magnitude of 5.3. The institute said the quake struck at 2.13pm local time, about 14 miles north of Athens.
The quake caused limited power cuts and communication problems around the capital; the fire brigade received calls about people trapped in lifts.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the quake on Tuesday and no tsunami warning was issued by the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
The epicentre was 102km southwest of the island's capital, Denpasar, and was 100km deep, the EMSC said.
The US Geological Survey recorded the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7.
A Twitter user with the handle Indounik in the city of Ubud on Bali said the quake was "strong enough to make me adopt the drop, cover & hold approach recommended to survive a quake".
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The quake struck 26 km (14 miles) north of Kandrian, in New Britain, at a depth of 33 km.
There were no immediate reports of damage.
Nearby Indonesia's Moluccas islands were hit by scores of aftershocks on Monday after an earthquake killed at least two people, prompting hundreds of people to flee their homes.
Source: Reuters
The United State Geological Services reported the quake happened at about 7:50 p.m., and that tremors could be felt within a 180-mile radius from the center.
"It rattled the dishes pretty good," said Marie Westphal, co-owner of Sir Scott's Oasis Steakhouse in Manhattan. "Nobody hurt, no damage or anything like that, but it was like, 'Holy cow, that was a pretty good jolt.'"
Westphal guessed that the quake lasted five to 10 seconds.
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