A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Global time and date of event 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 15:50:17 / August 26, 2015 @ 3:50 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 167.29 km (104 miles). Exact location, longitude 167.3569° East, latitude -14.5501° South, depth = 167.29 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:50:17 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003521. Id of event: us10003521.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-six 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. 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: 64 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
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