A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/16 / 2016-05-09 22:16:12 / May 9, 2016 @ 10:16 pm. Unique identifier: us10005i81. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005i81. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:16:12 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 91.28 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 91.28 km, 161.515° East, -10.1922° South.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 53 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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