A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Global time and date of event 06/08/25 / 2025-08-06 08:08:28 / August 6, 2025 @ 8:08 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qyhm. Id of event: us6000qyhm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 168.0058° East, latitude -18.1679° South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was detected at 08:08:28 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter).
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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (36 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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