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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on August 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.9396S, 168.104WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.104 East, latitude -17.9396 South, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us6000qz53. Event ids that are associated: us6000qz53. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/25 / 2025-07-27 09:17:32 / July 27, 2025 @ 9:17 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:17:32 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 31 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.104° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9396° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km SW 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 2025-07-27 09:17:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-16 13:22:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 272 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us6000qz53 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qz53 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qz53, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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