Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, 167.9841° East, -18.0268° South, depth 40.926 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.926 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 04:41:35 / December 17, 2024 @ 4:41 am. The temblor was detected at 04:41:35 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000phfw. Id of event: us6000phfw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days seventy-eight 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.9841° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.0268° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.926 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km SW 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 04:41:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-16 02:24:55	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	326	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.276	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us6000phfw	Id of event.
Event Code	6000phfw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000phfw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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