[GeoNet] Earthquake report

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                 INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL & NUCLEAR SCIENCES LTD.

        The following earthquake has been recorded by the Institute


        Reference number:     1830523/G
        Universal Time:       2002 January 2  1723
        NZ Daylight Time:     2002 January 3  6.23 a.m.
        Latitude, Longitude:  18.82°S  170.26°E
        Location:             240 km south-east of Port-Vila, Vanuatu
        Focal depth:          33 km
        Richter magnitude:    7.0
 
This location only uses New Zealand readings, the location
from the USGS is: 17.78S 167.83E 33 km deep, magnitude 7.3
this location is about 50 km west of Port-Vila. For more
information see http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin


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basis from a sparse network of seismographs. The size of the earthquakes
greater than magnitude 7 will be underestimated. Damaging earthquakes may
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