A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dk4y. Id of event: us6000dk4y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 167.4802 East, latitude -18.001 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:57:32 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/02/21 / 2021-02-16 10:57:32 / February 16, 2021 @ 10:57 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 93 km WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
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