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Historic Earthquake
2002 Port Vila Earthquake
2 January 2002 · Efate, Port Vila · Vanuatu
On 2 January 2002 at 17:22 UTC, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Vanuatu (Efate, Port Vila), at a depth of 21 km. It occurred on the New Hebrides Plate, 64 km from its boundary with the Australian Plate (subduction zone). It triggered a tsunami.
- Date
- 2 January 2002
- Time
- 17:22 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.2
- Depth
- 21 km
- Tsunami
- See the tsunami (3.0 m wave)
- Plate
- New Hebrides Plate
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Nearest Volcano
- Nguna-Emau (55 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 1965Vanuatu · M 7.6
- 1950Vanuatu · M 7.8
- 1925Vanuatu · M 7.6
- 1920Loyalty Islands · M 8.1
- 1913Vanuatu · M 8.1
- 1910Espiritu Santo · M 7.9
- 1910Vanuatu · M 7.9
- 1903Vanuatu · M 7.9
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth