A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: us600052bs. Unique identifier: us600052bs. The temblor was detected at 21:31:41 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 10:31:41 / July 31, 2019 @ 10:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.96 km (53 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 161.1748 East, latitude -10.1967 South, depth = 85.96 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).
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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 86 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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