A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/05/16 / 2016-05-30 13:33:58 / May 30, 2016 @ 1:33 pm. Id of earthquake: us200061qj. Event ids that are associated: us200061qj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 167.5182 East, latitude -14.9975 South, depth = 119.51 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 119.51 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:33:58 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville. Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 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 five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 50 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
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