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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 54 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.4278S, 161.4204WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 08:38:47 / December 9, 2016 @ 8:38 am. The temblor was detected at 19:38:47 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20007zfe. Unique identifier: us20007zfe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.08 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 161.4204° East, -10.4278° South, depth 40.08 km.

Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (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 twenty-nine, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 54 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.4204° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.4278° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km W 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 2016-12-09 08:38:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-09 09:08:02 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 354 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 1.752 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us20007zfe Id of event.
Event Code 20007zfe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zfe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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