A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.9563 East, latitude -14.4673 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:03:12 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jbyb. Unique identifier: us2000jbyb. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/01/19 / 2019-01-18 17:03:12 / January 18, 2019 @ 5:03 pm.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola.
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 78 km SE of Sola, Vanuatu.
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