A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000izjv. Id of event: us2000izjv. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/01/19 / 2019-01-01 00:04:06 / January 1, 2019 @ 12:04 am. 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 47.33 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.3356 East, latitude -14.9403 South, depth = 47.33 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:04:06 / 11:04 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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