A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 163.62 km (102 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:34:59 / 3:34 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002z7e. Id of event: us20002z7e. Global time and date of event 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 16:34:59 / July 4, 2015 @ 4:34 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 167.359 East, latitude -14.1797 South, depth = 163.62 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 38 km SSW of Sola, Vanuatu.
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