A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Luganville in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.7958 East, latitude -15.38 South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000myrt. Unique identifier: us6000myrt. Global time and date of event 08/05/24 / 2024-05-08 08:25:42 / May 8, 2024 @ 8:25 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:25:42 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakatoro, Luganville. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Luganville (c. 13 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lakatoro (c. 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days twenty-seven 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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