A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Saturday. Exact location, longitude 167.2613° East, latitude -14.5822° South, depth = 86.94 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:43:56 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 00:43:56 / August 1, 2015 @ 12:43 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100033m5. Event ids that are associated: us100033m5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.94 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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