A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu. Exact location of event, longitude 167.4204 East, latitude -15.4155 South, depth = 144.79 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 144.79 km (90 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:20:30 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000jias. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jias. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/03/19 / 2019-03-19 04:20:30 / March 19, 2019 @ 4:20 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Luganville (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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: 30 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu.
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