A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.08 km (24 miles). Unique identifier: us20007zdk. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zdk. The temblor was detected at 15:10:38 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 04:10:38 / December 9, 2016 @ 4:10 am. Exact location of event, longitude 161.2641 East, latitude -10.5293 South, depth = 38.08 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 72 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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