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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Isangel in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on September 25, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.1857S, 169.0212WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu on Thursday. 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 40.158 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 40.158 km, 169.0212° East, -20.1857° South. Id of earthquake: us6000rcyv. Event ids that are associated: us6000rcyv. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/25 / 2025-09-25 23:16:51 / September 25, 2025 @ 11:16 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:16:51 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 76 km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.0212° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1857° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.158 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-25 23:16:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-25 23:35:36 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 432 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.826 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rcyv Id of event.
Event Code 6000rcyv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rcyv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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