A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007m8b. Id of event: us10007m8b. The temblor was picked up at 18:19:41 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/12/16 / 2016-12-15 07:19:41 / December 15, 2016 @ 7:19 am. Exact location of event, longitude 161.3486 East, latitude -10.7381 South, depth = 50.4 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.4 km (31 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira. Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety 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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