A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000phfd. Unique identifier: us6000phfd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:26:16 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 167.6924° East, latitude -17.8604° South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 04:26:16 / December 17, 2024 @ 4:26 am.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila. Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 67 km WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
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