A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 02:34:00 / December 17, 2024 @ 2:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 168.1238° East, latitude -17.6508° South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:34:00 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000phf9. Unique identifier: us6000phf9.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 22 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
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