A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 138.75 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/11/19 / 2019-11-18 16:18:53 / November 18, 2019 @ 4:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70006d8n. Event ids that are associated: us70006d8n. Exact location, longitude 166.1036° East, latitude -10.6217° South, depth = 138.75 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:18:53 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km ENE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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