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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Lata in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.3966S, 164.2842WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 173 km WNW of Lata, Solomon Islands (107 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:11:25 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 164.2842 East, latitude -10.3966 South, depth = 35 km. Event id: us20003fb5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003fb5. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 09:11:25 / August 15, 2015 @ 9:11 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 173 km WNW of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.2842° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.3966° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173km WNW of Lata, 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 2015-08-15 09:11:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-12 07:44:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 4.377 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 us20003fb5 Id of event.
Event Code 20003fb5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fb5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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