A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. The epicenter was at a depth of 116.41 km (72 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/18 / 2018-09-27 02:37:00 / September 27, 2018 @ 2:37 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 168.4783° East, -17.8506° South, depth 116.41 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h33k. Unique identifier: us1000h33k. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:37:00 / 1:37 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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