A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The epicenter was at a depth of 133.36 km (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 21/10/15 / 2015-10-21 00:29:17 / October 21, 2015 @ 12:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.433 East, latitude -14.5574 South, depth = 133.36 km. Unique identifier: us10003rwu. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003rwu. The temblor was detected at 11:29:17 / 11:29 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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: 68 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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