A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.2262 East, latitude -17.6844 South, depth = 57.737 km. Global time and date of event 31/12/24 / 2024-12-31 07:57:36 / December 31, 2024 @ 7:57 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.737 km (36 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:57:36 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000pgm5. Event ids that are associated: us6000pgm5.
Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 12 km (7 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days eighty-four 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 10 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
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