A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Event id: us7000nwnb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nwnb. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/11/24 / 2024-11-23 17:25:52 / November 23, 2024 @ 5:25 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 167.5875° East, -17.7014° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:25:52 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 77 km W of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
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