A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Auki in Solomon Islands. Exact location, longitude 160.5462° East, latitude -8.7437° South, depth = 57.07 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.07 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000642a. Event ids that are associated: us2000642a. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 10:17:06 / June 13, 2016 @ 10:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:17:06 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Auki (c. 6 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Honiara, Taro’a, Tulaghi (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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