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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on December 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.8528S, 166.5885WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 12:16:15 / December 7, 2025 @ 12:16 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 166.5885 East, latitude -14.8528 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:16:15 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rt4z. Id of event: us6000rt4z. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 96 km (60 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.5885° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.8528° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km WNW 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 2025-12-07 12:16:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-07 12:40:06 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 6.445 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.837 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us6000rt4z Id of event.
Event Code 6000rt4z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rt4z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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