Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, depth 76.576 km, 168.1387° East, -17.4025° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 15/01/25 / 2025-01-15 07:32:21 / January 15, 2025 @ 7:32 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:32:21 / 7:32 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000pk3x. Event ids that are associated: us6000pk3x. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 76.576 km (48 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km NNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.1387° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.4025° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	76.576 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41 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	2025-01-15 07:32:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-15 07:50:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	385	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.805	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us6000pk3x	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pk3x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pk3x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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