A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 22:01:13 / August 9, 2019 @ 10:01 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.21 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 160.1901 East, latitude -9.8708 South, depth = 38.21 km. The temblor was detected at 09:01:13 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000560b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000560b.
Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tulaghi, Honiara. Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 55 km SSE of Honiara, Solomon Islands.
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