A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Unique identifier: us200081l3. Ids that are associated to the event: us200081l3. Exact location of earthquake, 161.3701° East, -10.5716° South, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 19:13:33 / December 10, 2016 @ 7:13 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 06:13:33 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, 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 has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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