A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Id of earthquake: us600069lq. Event ids that are associated: us600069lq. Exact location, longitude 167.505° East, latitude -14.8384° South, depth = 100.87 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:43:50 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/19 / 2019-11-09 03:43:50 / November 9, 2019 @ 3:43 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 100.87 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luganville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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