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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag strikes near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.1088S, 167.8842WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Saturday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port-Vila in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.8842 East, latitude -17.1088 South, depth = 29.182 km. Global time and date of event 25/05/24 / 2024-05-25 22:23:16 / May 25, 2024 @ 10:23 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: at00se2biv, pt24146000, us6000n102. Unique identifier: us6000n102. The temblor was detected at 22:23:16 / 10:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.182 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop), 123 km (76 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 83 km NNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.8842° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.1088° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.182 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km NNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-25 22:23:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-25 22:45:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 615 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,pt,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 169 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.83 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000n102 Id of event.
Event Code 6000n102 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00se2biv,pt24146000,us6000n102, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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