A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 86 kilometers (53 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 25.85 km (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.145 East, latitude -10.3298 South, depth = 25.85 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:51:22 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 06:51:22 / December 9, 2016 @ 6:51 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200081fb. Id of event: us200081fb.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 86 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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