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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.765S, 167.9651WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/24 / 2024-12-24 14:12:06 / December 24, 2024 @ 2:12 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 167.9651° East, latitude -17.765° South, depth = 35 km. Event id: us6000pfg0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pfg0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:12:06 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 37 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.9651° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.765° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 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 2024-12-24 14:12:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-24 14:57:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0 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 354 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 ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.446 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pfg0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pfg0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pfg0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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