A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Sola in Vanuatu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.8456 East, latitude -13.5443 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:18:08 / 5:18 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/04/20 / 2020-04-23 18:18:08 / April 23, 2020 @ 6:18 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009eph. Id of event: us60009eph.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 49 km (31 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km NE of Sola, Vanuatu.
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