A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.51 km (28 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 06:33:52 / December 9, 2016 @ 6:33 am. The temblor was picked up at 17:33:52 / 5:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 161.4906 East, latitude -11.0234 South, depth = 44.51 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20007zef. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zef.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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