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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 42 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu

Posted by admin on January 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.9567S, 167.9809WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:20:45 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 21:20:45 / January 6, 2025 @ 9:20 pm. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 167.9809° East, -17.9567° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000pi8v. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pi8v. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.9809° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9567° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-06 21:20:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-06 21:40:46 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 400 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.34 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pi8v Id of event.
Event Code 6000pi8v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pi8v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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