A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu on Sunday. Unique identifier: us200065da. Ids that are associated to the event: us200065da. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 75.63 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:03:32 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 168.7569° East, latitude -20.268° South, depth = 75.63 km. Global time and date of event 19/06/16 / 2016-06-19 10:03:32 / June 19, 2016 @ 10:03 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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