A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Norsup in Vanuatu. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ec3c. Id of event: us1000ec3c. The epicenter was at a depth of 130.66 km (81 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/05/18 / 2018-05-23 21:32:08 / May 23, 2018 @ 9:32 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:32:08 / 8:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 167.6521 East, latitude -15.6782 South, depth = 130.66 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luganville, Lakatoro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 51 km NNE of Norsup, Vanuatu.
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