A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:53:28 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 06:53:28 / July 18, 2015 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000306m. Id of event: us1000306m. Exact location, longitude 165.1695° East, latitude -10.4566° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lata. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 78 km WNW of Lata, Solomon Islands.
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