A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Event id: us6000re6q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000re6q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 167.4307 East, latitude -15.1223 South, depth = 150.852 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 150.852 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/25 / 2025-10-02 14:00:31 / October 2, 2025 @ 2:00 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:00:31 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty 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: 39 km ESE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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