A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 02:46:12 / December 9, 2016 @ 2:46 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.68 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 13:46:12 / 1:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20007zde. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zde. Exact location, longitude 161.19° East, latitude -10.9001° South, depth = 29.68 km.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages 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 twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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