M5.0 earthquake 121 km W of Sola, Vanuatu
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck 121 km W of Sola, Vanuatu on Sat, Jul 3, 2010, 3:25 AM GMT+11 (16:25 UTC), 35 km (22 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.1 149 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.0 (Mwc, centroid moment), moderate
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2010-07-02 16:25:25 UTC
- Depth
- 35.0 km (21.7 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 13.672° S, 166.448° E
- Region
- Vanuatu
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Magnitude estimates
Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.
| Mag. | Scale | Computed by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | Mwc, centroid moment | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed |
| 5.0 | Mw, moment | ISC-GEM global catalog | Final · ±0.1 |
| 5.0 | Mwc, centroid moment | Global CMT project | Preliminary |
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
Felt at Port-Olry.
From the USGS event page for usp000hetx. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Oblique normal
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 198°, dip 43°, rake -56°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 335°, dip 56°, rake -118°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Depth from
- OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
- Station coverage gap
- 62°
- Stations used
- 52
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 2.0 and up: 11 in the 60 days after this one and 12 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.8106 km W of Sola, Vanuatu · 5936 days ago · 35 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.5112 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5936 days ago · 46 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.8112 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5936 days ago · 39 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.7112 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5935 days ago · 28 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.5186 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5917 days ago · 35 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.1112 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5914 days ago · 35 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.2196 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5907 days ago · 15 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.7134 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5905 days ago · 98 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.771 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5904 days ago · 222 km deep · 79 km away
- 5.1149 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5896 days ago · 35 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.578 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5887 days ago · 94 km deep · 55 km away
Before
- 5.3105 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5937 days ago · 35 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.3113 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5937 days ago · 36 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.5131 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5937 days ago · 35 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.576 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5937 days ago · 33 km deep · 45 km away
- 6.3118 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5937 days ago · 29 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.3104 km W of Sola, Vanuatu · 5938 days ago · 35 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.973 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5941 days ago · 49 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.295 km W of Sola, Vanuatu · 5962 days ago · 10 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.391 km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5963 days ago · 38 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.697 km W of Sola, Vanuatu · 5967 days ago · 35 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.1133 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 5967 days ago · 44 km deep · 18 km away
- 5.6104 km W of Sola, Vanuatu · 5967 days ago · 35 km deep · 17 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000hetx (also filed as gcmtc201007021625a, gcmt20100702162525, iscgem14834812). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 9:23 AM UTC.