A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003p0u. Unique identifier: us70003p0u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 225.15 km (140 miles). Exact location, longitude 169.1853° East, latitude -18.8534° South, depth = 225.15 km. The temblor was detected at 08:54:42 / 8:54 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/05/19 / 2019-05-13 21:54:42 / May 13, 2019 @ 9:54 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 77 km N of Isangel, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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