A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Unique identifier: us6000phlq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000phlq. The temblor was detected at 11:10:38 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/12/24 / 2024-12-22 11:10:38 / December 22, 2024 @ 11:10 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.901 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 168.266 East, latitude -17.5041 South, depth = 9.901 km.
The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila. 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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