A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 22:24:34 / December 21, 2018 @ 10:24 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 167.8357 East, latitude -16.2254 South, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:24:34 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000iw48. Event ids that are associated: us2000iw48.
Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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