Earthquake in your Country
1) A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred on February. 19 at 12:00am.
2) It's focus was 92km north of the capital city, Port Villa
3) This eathquake occurred at a depth of 10km, suggesting that it was the result of internal deformation rather than movement at the plate interface. This plate interface being the Australian plate subducting beneath the Pacific plate.
4) The Richter scale magnitude of the earthquake was 6.5, which is 5 times stronger than a 6.0 earthquake.
5a) Some trees were taken out, but not much else was effected and nobody was injured.
b) Not many roads were damaged, but others were just slightly
c/d) There was no economic impact because there were no buildings completely destroyed.
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