A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20007zfr. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zfr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.65 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 161.0186° East, -10.7122° South, depth 31.65 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 09:43:02 / December 9, 2016 @ 9:43 am. The temblor was reported at 20:43:02 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 102 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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