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December 17, 2024 | 06:16 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Tuesday, December 17, that the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra had tried to contact Indonesian citizens, the diaspora, and colleagues in Vanuatu after the country was struck by a strong earthquake today. The embassy also continues to contact officials and contact points in Vanuatu.
"However, until this statement is released, we have not yet been able to reach these contacts. Vanuatu's authorities, who are currently in Sydney, informed us that the telecommunications network in Port Vila is currently down," according to a ministry statement today.
There are a total of 48 Indonesians registered in Vanuatu, with 47 working as vessel crew and one person married to a foreign national.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck the southwest region of the Vanuatu Islands in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday morning, December 17, 2024. The epicenter of the quake was located at 17.63 degrees South Latitude and 167.90 degrees East Longitude, approximately 47 kilometers southwest of Port Vila, Vanuatu, with a hypocenter depth of 50 kilometers.
Daryono, Head of the Earthquake and Tsunami Center at the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), stated in a written statement on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, that the quake was a shallow event triggered by subduction activity, specifically the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate beneath the Pacific Plate at a rate of 92 millimeters per year. The earthquake's mechanism involved an upward movement with a combination of oblique thrust faulting within the Vanuatu Trench.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii reported that the earthquake generated a local tsunami with a height of 0.25 meters at the Port-Vila Tide Gauge at 09:07 WIB, a height of 0.19 meters at the Lennakel Tide Gauge at 09:23 WIB, and a height of 0.13 meters at the Luganville Tide Gauge at 09:27 WIB.
BMKG's analysis indicated no tsunami threat to the Indonesian region. The agency urged coastal communities in Indonesia to remain calm.
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