A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. Exact location, longitude 167.262° East, latitude -14.2158° South, depth = 150.8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 150.8 km (94 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/19 / 2019-11-28 01:24:00 / November 28, 2019 @ 1:24 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us60006pdb. Unique identifier: us60006pdb. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:24:00 / 12:24 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola. Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 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 three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km SW of Sola, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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