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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Isangel in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -19.0113S, 169.3953WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/25 / 2025-03-25 13:34:35 / March 25, 2025 @ 1:34 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 169.3953 East, latitude -19.0113 South, depth = 267.858 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 267.858 km (166 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:34:35 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q3r2. Id of event: us6000q3r2.

The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km NNE of Isangel, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.3953° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.0113° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 267.858 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 km NNE of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-25 13:34:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-16 18:37:43 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.02 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us6000q3r2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000q3r2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q3r2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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