A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/25 / 2025-01-03 12:21:49 / January 3, 2025 @ 12:21 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:21:49 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pk6q. Id of event: us6000pk6q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 168.6136° East, -17.2432° South.
Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 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 ten, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 63 km NNE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
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