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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.7101S, 168.0309WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 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 location of event, longitude 168.0309 East, latitude -17.7101 South, depth = 44.554 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 08:01:59 / January 6, 2025 @ 8:01 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pkna. Unique identifier: us6000pkna. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.554 km (28 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:01:59 / 8:01 am (local time epicenter).

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). The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 30 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0309° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.7101° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.554 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 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 2025-01-06 08:01:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-30 13:46:30 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.386 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us6000pkna Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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