Quakedle
Puzzle #97 was 186 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M6.0 — strong class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- Vanuatu and New Caledonia
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 0 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- green PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Australian Plate · Pacific Plate
- Tectonic context
- The Vanuatu arc is part of the convergent Australian–Pacific plate boundary, with frequent interface and in-slab earthquakes.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M6.0. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Strong (M6.0–6.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “186 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Vanuatu and New Caledonia
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- The event uses magnitude type “mww”. What does that code mean?
- Mww — W-phase moment magnitude