What the records say
- When
- 2 Jan 2002
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 17.60° S, 167.86° E
- Max water height m
- 3
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.2
- Runups
- 2
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2002 Port Vila earthquake
Earthquakes in Vanuatu
The 2002 Port Vila earthquake occurred in the early dawn of 3 January 2002, 4:22 a.m. local time (UTC+11) northwest of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu. It had a magnitude of 7.2 Mw and a maximum intensity of X (Extreme) west of the island on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page