A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/03/17 / 2017-03-03 08:40:46 / March 3, 2017 @ 8:40 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:40:46 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 161.0926° East, latitude -10.5288° South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000887u. Id of event: us1000887u.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 90 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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