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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Sola in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on January 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.4573S, 167.4441WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Event id: us6000pkf5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pkf5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.755 km (69 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 167.4441 East, latitude -14.4573 South, depth = 110.755 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/25 / 2025-01-04 10:52:06 / January 4, 2025 @ 10:52 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:52:06 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km S of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4441° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.4573° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.755 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km S of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-04 10:52:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-17 13:23:13 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 271 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us6000pkf5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkf5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkf5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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