Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rhvv. Id of event: us6000rhvv. Exact location, longitude 167.3546° East, latitude -14.6963° South, depth = 120.692 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 120.692 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 19:08:14 / September 26, 2025 @ 7:08 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:08:14 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville, Sola. The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 48 km NE of Port-Olry, 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	167.3546° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.6963° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	120.692 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-26 19:08:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-22 22:07:27	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.515	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us6000rhvv	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rhvv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rhvv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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