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Moderate earthquake: M5.9 quake has struck near Sola in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -14.2672S, 167.2762WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qgd9. Unique identifier: us6000qgd9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 202.438 km (126 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/25 / 2025-05-28 08:57:48 / May 28, 2025 @ 8:57 am. Exact location of event, longitude 167.2762 East, latitude -14.2672 South, depth = 202.438 km. The temblor was detected at 08:57:48 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 52 km SW of Sola, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.2762° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.2672° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 202.438 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km SW 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 2025-05-28 08:57:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-28 09:12:49 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 536 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 81 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us6000qgd9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgd9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgd9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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