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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on March 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.005S, 167.0367WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 19:11:05 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 87.547 km (54 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000pmjf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pmjf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.0367 East, latitude -15.005 South, depth = 87.547 km. Global time and date of event 16/03/25 / 2025-03-16 19:11:05 / March 16, 2025 @ 7:11 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-two 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 5 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.0367° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.005° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.547 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-16 19:11:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-27 16:08:01 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us7000pmjf Id of event.
Event Code 7000pmjf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pmjf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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