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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 82 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu

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Earthquake location -13.2208S, 167.1934WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qgtr. Unique identifier: us6000qgtr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/05/25 / 2025-05-30 05:32:25 / May 30, 2025 @ 5:32 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 202.382 km (126 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:32:25 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 167.1934° East, latitude -13.2208° South, depth = 202.382 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 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 four and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.1934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.2208° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 202.382 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82 km NNW 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 2025-05-30 05:32:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-30 05:59:52 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 369 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us6000qgtr Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgtr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgtr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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