A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dsm6. Unique identifier: us1000dsm6. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 167.6097° East, -17.8641° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/18 / 2018-04-21 21:06:48 / April 21, 2018 @ 9:06 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:06:48 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 76 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
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