A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact location, longitude 167.0687° East, latitude -13.6579° South, depth = 101.06 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 00:45:32 / August 10, 2015 @ 12:45 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:45:32 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100035a6. Unique identifier: us100035a6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.06 km (63 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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