Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 06:13:37 / January 26, 2025 @ 6:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 168.1157 East, latitude -17.7298 South, depth = 39.109 km. Event id: us6000pme3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pme3. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:13:37 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.109 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.1157° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.7298° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.109 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 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	2025-01-26 06:13:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-26 06:32:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	433	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.433	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us6000pme3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pme3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pme3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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