A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us200066jt. Unique identifier: us200066jt. Exact location of event, longitude 167.1928 East, latitude -16.2879 South, depth = 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:30:40 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/06/16 / 2016-06-21 14:30:40 / June 21, 2016 @ 2:30 pm.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville, Lakatoro.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 30 km SW of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.
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