A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 23:31:01 / June 8, 2016 @ 11:31 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude 168.0572° East, latitude -17.6899° South, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200064a6. Unique identifier: us200064a6. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:31:01 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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