A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 165.6817° East, -10.7401° South. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:39:38 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/03/19 / 2019-03-31 13:39:38 / March 31, 2019 @ 1:39 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000kcf3. Unique identifier: us2000kcf3.
The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lata. Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km W of Lata, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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