A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Unique identifier: us10003y0p. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003y0p. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.3995 East, latitude -14.7776 South, depth = 132.84 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:43:29 / 6:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 132.84 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/15 / 2015-11-13 07:43:29 / November 13, 2015 @ 7:43 am.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville. Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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