A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Id of earthquake: us2000fqdy. Event ids that are associated: us2000fqdy. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/06/18 / 2018-06-28 16:47:49 / June 28, 2018 @ 4:47 pm. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:47:49 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.4588 East, latitude -15.1393 South, depth = 119.47 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 119.47 km (74 miles).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro, Luganville. Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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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: 45 km ESE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
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