A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Gizo in Solomon Islands. The temblor was detected at 21:44:18 / 9:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/04/18 / 2018-04-24 11:44:18 / April 24, 2018 @ 11:44 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000dr82. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dr82. Exact location of event, longitude 156.4209 East, latitude -8.0837 South, depth = 10 km.
Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Gizo (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gizo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 46 km W of Gizo, Solomon Islands.
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