A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.43 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.8937 East, latitude -10.8698 South, depth = 32.43 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100033x5. Unique identifier: us100033x5. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/15 / 2015-08-03 12:03:50 / August 3, 2015 @ 12:03 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:03:50 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira. 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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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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. 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: 46 km S of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.
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