Major earthquake 7.3 mag, 30 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu

A major earthquake magnitude 7.3 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us7000nzf3. Event ids that are associated: at00som7n2, us7000nzf3, pt24352000. Exact location of event, depth 43.045 km, 168.0304° East, -17.7105° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.045 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 01:47:25 / December 17, 2024 @ 1:47 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port-Vila in Vanuatu (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 7.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:47:25 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.0304° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.7105° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.045 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km W 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	2024-12-17 01:47:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-17 02:06:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	7.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	7.796	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	yellow	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	822	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,us,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.386	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us7000nzf3	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nzf3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00som7n2,us7000nzf3,pt24352000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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