A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000pylg. Event ids that are associated: us6000pylg. The temblor was picked up at 14:20:08 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 126.31 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 167.3228° East, latitude -14.8009° South, depth = 126.31 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/25 / 2025-03-04 14:20:08 / March 4, 2025 @ 2:20 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 37 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
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