A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/16 / 2016-12-11 00:11:32 / December 11, 2016 @ 12:11 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.42 km (21 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:11:32 / 11:11 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us200082ra. Event ids that are associated: us200082ra. Exact location, longitude 161.292° East, latitude -10.5666° South, depth = 34.42 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 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 fifty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 69 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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