A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Buala in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000mrtq. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mrtq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 109.369 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/24 / 2024-06-11 21:43:10 / June 11, 2024 @ 9:43 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.99 East, latitude -8.3446 South, depth = 109.369 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:43:10 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buala. Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km WSW of Buala, Solomon Islands.
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