A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, longitude 167.2362 East, latitude -13.7329 South, depth = 138.32 km. Id of earthquake: us10003iv6. Event ids that are associated: us10003iv6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/09/15 / 2015-09-29 14:45:16 / September 29, 2015 @ 2:45 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:45:16 / 1:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 138.32 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 37 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu.
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