A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 167.3574° East, latitude -15.4906° South, depth = 146.18 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 18:30:33 / May 2, 2018 @ 6:30 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:30:33 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 146.18 km (91 miles). Unique identifier: us1000e1cn. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000e1cn.
Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro, Luganville (min 5000 pop).
Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 21 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.
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