A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.0119 East, latitude -16.4538 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iudg. Id of event: us2000iudg. 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 10 km (6 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:16:13 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/12/18 / 2018-12-17 07:16:13 / December 17, 2018 @ 7:16 am UTC/GMT.
Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakatoro. 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 73 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.
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