Strong earthquake, 6.5 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

A earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, longitude 167.8 East, latitude -17.1 South, depth = 6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/05/24 / 2024-05-25 22:23:19 / May 25, 2024 @ 10:23 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port-Vila in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Event id: at00se2biv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt24146000, at00se2biv. The temblor was detected at 22:23:19 / 10:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Port-Vila. Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop), 118 km (74 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Lakatoro Port-Vila Vanuatu

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.8° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.1° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	89 km NW 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 22:23:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-25 22:38:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	652	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57.599995392	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00se2biv	Id of event.
Event Code	00se2biv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt24146000,at00se2biv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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