A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.87 km (35 miles). Global time and date of event 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 08:07:02 / February 27, 2018 @ 8:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 169.0188° East, -19.6512° South, depth 55.87 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:07:02 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d8nj. Unique identifier: us2000d8nj.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isangel. Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 28 km (18 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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