A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 161.6883 East, latitude -10.2833 South, depth = 77.94 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 77.94 km (48 miles). Event id: us700099y5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700099y5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/20 / 2020-05-04 17:32:02 / May 4, 2020 @ 5:32 pm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:32:02 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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