A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/19 / 2019-08-21 20:03:12 / August 21, 2019 @ 8:03 pm. Exact location, longitude 165.9397° East, latitude -10.6839° South, depth = 96.53 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:03:12 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us700058uk. Event ids that are associated: us700058uk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 96.53 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata. Epicenter of the event was 12 km (8 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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: 12 km ENE of Lata, Solomon Islands.
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