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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

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Earthquake location -17.9464S, 168.1962WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 23/04/25 / 2025-04-23 07:06:58 / April 23, 2025 @ 7:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.1962 East, latitude -17.9464 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us7000py77. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000py77. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:06:58 / 7:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila. Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.1962° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9464° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km SSW 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 2025-04-23 07:06:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-22 13:10:34 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 326 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 us7000py77 Id of event.
Event Code 7000py77 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000py77, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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