A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, longitude 167.36 East, latitude -14.4029 South, depth = 204.21 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 204.21 km (127 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 08:10:32 / February 7, 2019 @ 8:10 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:10:32 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000jnc9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jnc9.
Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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