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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on June 13, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8959S, 168.5066WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000qk6i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qk6i. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 156.838 km (97 miles). Global time and date of event 13/06/25 / 2025-06-13 23:00:21 / June 13, 2025 @ 11:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 168.5066° East, latitude -17.8959° South, depth = 156.838 km. The temblor was reported at 23:00:21 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 27 km SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.5066° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8959° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 156.838 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km SE 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 2025-06-13 23:00:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-13 23:19:23 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 385 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.737 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us6000qk6i Id of event.
Event Code 6000qk6i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qk6i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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