A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu on Thursday. Global time and date of event 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 17:16:15 / June 1, 2016 @ 5:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us200062jx. Ids that are associated to the event: us200062jx. The temblor was picked up at 04:16:15 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 167.4436 East, latitude -14.9768 South, depth = 125.46 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 125.46 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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