A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 15/12/18 / 2018-12-15 19:29:02 / December 15, 2018 @ 7:29 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000itwl. Id of event: us2000itwl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.047 East, latitude -16.3676 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:29:02 / 6:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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