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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 195 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu


Earthquake location -12.4327S, 166.5053WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 195 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu (121 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000pxim. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pxim. Exact location of event, longitude 166.5053 East, latitude -12.4327 South, depth = 98.976 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/04/25 / 2025-04-20 02:10:55 / April 20, 2025 @ 2:10 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:10:55 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98.976 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety-one 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 195 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.5053° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.4327° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.976 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 195 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-20 02:10:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-07 01:29:24 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us7000pxim Id of event.
Event Code 7000pxim An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pxim, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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