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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

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Earthquake location -17.6884S, 167.939WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, 167.939° East, -17.6884° South, depth 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/25 / 2025-05-08 10:53:00 / May 8, 2025 @ 10:53 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000pxx0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pxx0. The temblor was reported at 10:53:00 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 40 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.939° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6884° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km W 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 2025-05-08 10:53:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-08 11:46:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 355 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.338 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us7000pxx0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pxx0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pxx0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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