A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu on Thursday. Global time and date of event 13/04/16 / 2016-04-13 22:16:00 / April 13, 2016 @ 10:16 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20005ket. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005ket. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 178.18 km (111 miles). Exact location, longitude 167.0164° East, latitude -13.4492° South, depth = 178.18 km. The temblor was detected at 09:16:00 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days seventy-eight 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 75 km NW of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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