A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Sigave in Wallis and Futuna. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:29:11 / 8:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us700058x0. Unique identifier: us700058x0. Exact location of event, longitude -178.3029 West, latitude -15.1471 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 27/08/19 / 2019-08-27 20:29:11 / August 27, 2019 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the event was 96 km (60 miles) from Sigavé (c. 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Alo (c. 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sigavé, Alo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Wallis and Futuna (c. 16 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 94 km S of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna.
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