A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:58:30 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 161.2471 East, latitude -10.4929 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10007m20. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007m20. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/12/16 / 2016-12-14 16:58:30 / December 14, 2016 @ 4:58 pm UTC/GMT.
The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 73 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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