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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Isangel in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on December 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.9494S, 169.3192WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 155 km S of Isangel, Vanuatu (96 miles) on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/11/25 / 2025-11-27 16:08:00 / November 27, 2025 @ 4:08 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.3192 East, latitude -20.9494 South, depth = 133.045 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 133.045 km (83 miles). Event id: us6000rv0j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rv0j. The temblor was detected at 16:08:00 / 4:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 155 km S of Isangel, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.3192° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.9494° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.045 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155 km S 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 2025-11-27 16:08:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-19 20:38:56 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 284 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 245 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 us6000rv0j Id of event.
Event Code 6000rv0j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rv0j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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