A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e3xe. Unique identifier: us1000e3xe. Exact location of earthquake, 166.0043° East, -10.8941° South, depth 100.39 km. The temblor was detected at 13:53:34 / 1:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 02:53:34 / May 13, 2018 @ 2:53 am. 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 100.39 km (62 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 27 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands.
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