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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on September 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.132S, 168.3039WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/25 / 2025-08-27 02:19:51 / August 27, 2025 @ 2:19 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.282 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 168.3039° East, latitude -18.132° South, depth = 18.282 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rc3d. Id of event: us6000rc3d. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:19:51 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila. Event epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.

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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: 43 km S of Port-Vila, 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 168.3039° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.132° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.282 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 km S 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 2025-08-27 02:19:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-24 03:01:20 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.87 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000rc3d Id of event.
Event Code 6000rc3d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rc3d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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