A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Gizo in Solomon Islands. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:44:04 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 156.7882° East, -7.8785° South, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 11/10/16 / 2016-10-11 16:44:04 / October 11, 2016 @ 4:44 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007f34. Id of event: us20007f34. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gizo. Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Gizo (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 25 km NNW of Gizo, Solomon Islands.
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