A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us1000g29t. Event ids that are associated: us1000g29t. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 08:41:25 / August 2, 2018 @ 8:41 am. The temblor was detected at 19:41:25 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter). 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 47.54 km (30 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.3204 East, latitude -18.0246 South, depth = 47.54 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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