A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007dvy. Id of event: us20007dvy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:14:29 / 10:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/16 / 2016-10-07 23:14:29 / October 7, 2016 @ 11:14 pm. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 165.9324° East, -11.1947° South.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 53 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands.
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