A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/12/17 / 2017-12-28 08:22:40 / December 28, 2017 @ 8:22 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:22:40 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000bx2d. Event ids that are associated: us1000bx2d. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 165.869° East, -11.4058° South.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 76 km S of Lata, Solomon Islands.
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