A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Unique identifier: us2000kcqe. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000kcqe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/04/19 / 2019-04-09 02:57:57 / April 9, 2019 @ 2:57 am UTC/GMT. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:57:57 / 1:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 209.97 km (130 miles). Exact location of event, depth 209.97 km, 167.3076° East, -14.2927° South.
Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 52 km SSW of Sola, Vanuatu.
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