A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 167.2147° East, latitude -14.4758° South, depth = 128.59 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/15 / 2015-10-20 23:45:39 / October 20, 2015 @ 11:45 pm. Id of earthquake: us10003rwf. Event ids that are associated: us10003rwf. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:45:39 / 10:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.59 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 75 km (47 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).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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