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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on May 11, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.6762S, 168.2823WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Event id: us7000pyn1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pyn1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/25 / 2025-05-11 11:22:21 / May 11, 2025 @ 11:22 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.531 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 62.531 km, 168.2823° East, -17.6762° South. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:22:21 / 11:22 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 8 km (5 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 7 km NNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.2823° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6762° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.531 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km NNW 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 2025-05-11 11:22:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-11 11:43:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 537 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 118 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.446 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 70 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 us7000pyn1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pyn1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pyn1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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