A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.91 km (35 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 162.0046 East, latitude -10.1766 South, depth = 56.91 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/09/17 / 2017-09-20 09:47:07 / September 20, 2017 @ 9:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:47:07 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000awnm. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000awnm.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 32 km NNE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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