A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 18:02:10 / November 9, 2015 @ 6:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003w0v. Unique identifier: us10003w0v. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:02:10 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 161.5036° East, -10.8896° South, depth 10 km.
Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km SW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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