A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 09:38:30 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 22:38:30 / December 10, 2016 @ 10:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 44.64 km (28 miles). Event id: us200081l9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200081l9. Exact location of earthquake, 161.4325° East, -10.4152° South, depth 44.64 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira. Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 sixty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 53 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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