A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 161.0658° East, -10.6982° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 18:12:00 / December 9, 2016 @ 6:12 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:12:00 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zla. Id of event: us20007zla.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 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 thirty-six, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 97 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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