Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Sola in Vanuatu

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 115 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu (71 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 05:21:27 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.8908 East, latitude -13.0573 South, depth = 205.456 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000plci. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000plci. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 205.456 km (128 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/03/25 / 2025-03-11 05:21:27 / March 11, 2025 @ 5:21 am.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 115 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	166.8908° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-13.0573° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	205.456 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	115 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-11 05:21:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-24 10:54:18	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	298	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.395	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us7000plci	Id of event.
Event Code	7000plci	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000plci,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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