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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on March 3, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.4704S, 167.7898WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.703 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 167.7898 East, latitude -17.4704 South, depth = 22.703 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pekf. Event ids that are associated: us7000pekf. The temblor was picked up at 01:24:20 / 1:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/02/25 / 2025-02-10 01:24:20 / February 10, 2025 @ 1:24 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 62 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.7898° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.4704° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.703 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km WNW 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 2025-02-10 01:24:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-03 02:32:57 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 259 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us7000pekf Id of event.
Event Code 7000pekf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pekf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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