Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 13:38:35 / 1:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/12/24 / 2024-12-24 13:38:35 / December 24, 2024 @ 1:38 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pi6r. Id of event: us6000pi6r. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 168.168° East, latitude -17.5786° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila. Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 23 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.168° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.5786° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km NW 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 13:38:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-21 20:14:47	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	284	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.713	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	267	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	us6000pi6r	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pi6r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pi6r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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