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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Auki in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -8.7437S, 160.5462WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Auki in Solomon Islands. Exact location, longitude 160.5462° East, latitude -8.7437° South, depth = 57.07 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.07 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000642a. Event ids that are associated: us2000642a. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 10:17:06 / June 13, 2016 @ 10:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:17:06 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Auki (c. 6 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Honiara, Taro’a, Tulaghi (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km W of Auki, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.5462° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.7437° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km W of Auki, 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 2016-06-13 10:17:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-13 11:25:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 355 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 0.909 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us2000642a Id of event.
Event Code 2000642a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000642a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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