A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 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). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.57 km (24 miles). Exact location of event, depth 38.57 km, 161.0727° East, -10.8518° South. The temblor was picked up at 04:55:51 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20007zl3. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zl3. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 17:55:51 / December 9, 2016 @ 5:55 pm.
Epicenter of the event was 103 km (64 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.
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