A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 13:02:33 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 77.12 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 162.0797 East, latitude -10.6944 South, depth = 77.12 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 02:02:33 / March 14, 2016 @ 2:02 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005aia. Unique identifier: us20005aia.
The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 31 km SSE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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