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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.0345S, 161.0214WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The temblor was detected at 03:25:01 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.58 km (41 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 161.0214° East, -10.0345° South, depth 65.58 km. Id of earthquake: us10006ttq. Event ids that are associated: us10006ttq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/16 / 2016-09-19 16:25:01 / September 19, 2016 @ 4:25 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taro’a (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 108 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.0214° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.0345° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km WNW 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 2016-09-19 16:25:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-10 17:09:49 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 271 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 1.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us10006ttq Id of event.
Event Code 10006ttq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ttq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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