A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 06/04/16 / 2016-04-06 12:53:49 / April 6, 2016 @ 12:53 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 167.1409° East, latitude -14.1462° South, depth = 28.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005ia4. Unique identifier: us20005ia4. The temblor was reported at 23:53:49 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.29 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 52 km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu.
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