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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on August 12, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.7822S, 167.3962WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.3962 East, latitude -14.7822 South, depth = 132.752 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:04:58 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/25 / 2025-07-18 10:04:58 / July 18, 2025 @ 10:04 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 132.752 km (82 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qwlw. Id of event: us6000qwlw.

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville. Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.3962° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.7822° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 132.752 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-18 10:04:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-12 23:24:35 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 312 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.687 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 253 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 us6000qwlw Id of event.
Event Code 6000qwlw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qwlw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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