A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. All ids that are associated to the event: us100088xj. Unique identifier: us100088xj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:55:36 / 10:55 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/03/17 / 2017-03-06 23:55:36 / March 6, 2017 @ 11:55 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 167.3421° East, latitude -15.1127° South, depth = 149.04 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 149.04 km (93 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 32 km ESE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
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