A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. Exact location, longitude 167.5058° East, latitude -16.9024° South, depth = 17.36 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.36 km (11 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005k4g. Unique identifier: us20005k4g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:38:41 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/04/16 / 2016-04-12 14:38:41 / April 12, 2016 @ 2:38 pm.
Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro. Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 87 km S of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.
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