A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Thursday. Exact location, longitude 166.1075° East, latitude -10.9138° South, depth = 61.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:27:20 / 9:27 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70008qhv. Event ids that are associated: us70008qhv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.59 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 22:27:20 / April 1, 2020 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lata. Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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