A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 03:53:39 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.17 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 09/05/16 / 2016-05-09 16:53:39 / May 9, 2016 @ 4:53 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10005i7w. Unique identifier: us10005i7w. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.8546 East, latitude -14.4146 South, depth = 35.17 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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