M5.0 earthquake · 218 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

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Dozens of M5+ quakes recorded, with a cluster northwest of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

On Monday, two quakes of M5.2 and M5.0 struck northwest of Port-Olry, Vanuatu, and an M5.5 quake hit at 642 km depth east of Levuka, Fiji (USGS PAGER alert level green). An M5.0 quake also struck near Ende, Indonesia, early Monday. Over the past three days the strongest events were an M6.1 at 116 km depth near Port-Olry on Sunday and an M5.9 on Saturday in the same area, with repeated M5 quakes at 10 km depth northwest of Port-Olry.

• Vanuatu recorded most of the quakes, including an M6.1 on Sunday near Port-Olry at 116 km depth, with 4 felt reports.
• An M5.9 struck in China, 218 km ENE of Nagqu, on Sunday at 7 km depth, with PAGER alert level green.
• An M5.8 was recorded in the Bouvet Island region on Saturday.
• Other M5+ quakes hit Papua New Guinea, Japan, Afghanistan, Russia and Indonesia.