Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Sola in Vanuatu

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000py8a. Unique identifier: us7000py8a. The temblor was picked up at 12:37:24 / 12:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.9293 East, latitude -13.3348 South, depth = 629.5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/05/25 / 2025-05-09 12:37:24 / May 9, 2025 @ 12:37 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 629.5 km (391 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 72 km NE of Sola, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.9293° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-13.3348° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	629.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72 km NE 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	2025-05-09 12:37:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-09 13:01:14	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	94	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.214	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us7000py8a	Id of event.
Event Code	7000py8a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000py8a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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