A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Lakatoro in Vanuatu on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/18 / 2018-12-17 14:32:31 / December 17, 2018 @ 2:32 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ivyi. Id of event: us2000ivyi. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.13 km (28 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:32:31 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 168.1471 East, latitude -16.2981 South, depth = 45.13 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 80 km ESE of Lakatoro, Vanuatu.
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