A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/10/25 / 2025-10-13 04:50:23 / October 13, 2025 @ 4:50 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 167.5363 East, latitude -18.1101 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 04:50:23 / 4:50 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rle1. Id of event: us6000rle1.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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