A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 167.7471° East, latitude -16.3961° South, depth = 38.2 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003kje. Unique identifier: us20003kje. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 09:02:03 / September 17, 2015 @ 9:02 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:02:03 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.2 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 46 km SE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.
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