A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 167.8813 East, latitude -14.5221 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 30/04/25 / 2025-04-30 14:34:03 / April 30, 2025 @ 2:34 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 14:34:03 / 2:34 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000pzez. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pzez.

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop).

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 seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 79 km SSE of Sola, Vanuatu.

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