A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jhg6. Unique identifier: us2000jhg6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.383 East, latitude -13.8529 South, depth = 190.38 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 190.38 km (118 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:04:01 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/02/19 / 2019-02-01 05:04:01 / February 1, 2019 @ 5:04 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola. Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-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. 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: 18 km W of Sola, Vanuatu.
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