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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.4187S, 163.3566WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 189 km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands (117 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/06/15 / 2015-06-14 11:49:16 / June 14, 2015 @ 11:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.18 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10002lxd. Event ids that are associated: us10002lxd. Exact location of event, depth 34.18 km, 163.3566° East, -11.4187° South. The temblor was detected at 22:49:16 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 189 km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 163.3566° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.4187° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-14 11:49:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-03 08:48:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.888 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002lxd Id of event.
Event Code 10002lxd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002lxd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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