A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 161.5777 East, latitude -10.1435 South, depth = 97.76 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hghf. Unique identifier: us1000hghf. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/18 / 2018-10-19 14:23:58 / October 19, 2018 @ 2:23 pm. The temblor was detected at 01:23:58 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97.76 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 50 km NW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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