What the records say
- When
- 8 Dec 2016
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.8
- Where
- Solomon Islands
- Coordinates
- 10.68° S, 161.33° E
- Deaths
- 1
- Houses destroyed
- 191
- Intensity mmi
- 8
- Depth km
- 40
2016 Solomon Islands earthquakes
Seismic events
On 9 December 2016 at 4:38 a.m. local time, the Solomon Islands region was rocked by an Mww7.8 earthquake, centred 30 km off San Cristobal Island, about 61 km southwest of Kirakira, the capital of Makira-Ulawa Province.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page