A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 161.4694° East, -10.8163° South. The temblor was picked up at 11:06:22 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us200081e7. Ids that are associated to the event: us200081e7. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 00:06:22 / December 9, 2016 @ 12:06 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 63 km SW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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