A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. The temblor was picked up at 15:43:52 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 194.53 km (121 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.1747 East, latitude -13.7494 South, depth = 194.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/17 / 2017-05-03 04:43:52 / May 3, 2017 @ 4:43 am. Unique identifier: us10008npp. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008npp.
The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 43 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu.
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