A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.8953 East, latitude -15.0234 South, depth = 16.728 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/25 / 2025-07-22 14:46:17 / July 22, 2025 @ 2:46 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.728 km (10 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qyjb. Id of event: us6000qyjb. The temblor was detected at 14:46:17 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville. Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 19 km W of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
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