A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact location of event, longitude 161.6561 East, latitude -11.0603 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 19:10:12 / December 10, 2016 @ 7:10 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us200081l1. Unique identifier: us200081l1. The temblor was reported at 06:10:12 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira. Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-six 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km SSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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