A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. Exact location of event, depth 168.7 km, 165.9457° East, -10.5577° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/19 / 2019-05-08 16:22:44 / May 8, 2019 @ 4:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:22:44 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003m4a. Id of event: us70003m4a. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 168.7 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lata. The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km NE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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