A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 43.74 km, 161.4136° East, -10.3078° South. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:05:19 / 3:05 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007t27. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007t27. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/16 / 2016-12-26 16:05:19 / December 26, 2016 @ 4:05 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 43.74 km (27 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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