A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, longitude 167.3579 East, latitude -14.8626 South, depth = 138.06 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003ry1. Unique identifier: us10003ry1. The temblor was detected at 02:51:18 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 138.06 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/10/15 / 2015-10-21 15:51:18 / October 21, 2015 @ 3:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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