A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Monday. Exact location, longitude 167.7274° East, latitude -17.4756° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/02/25 / 2025-02-10 06:59:52 / February 10, 2025 @ 6:59 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:59:52 / 6:59 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000peja. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000peja.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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