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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.0812S, 161.7299WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20007zsj. Unique identifier: us20007zsj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.95 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 34.95 km, 161.7299° East, -11.0812° South. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:48:54 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 12:48:54 / December 10, 2016 @ 12:48 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 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: 72 km SSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.7299° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.0812° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km SSW 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 2016-12-10 12:48:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-10 13:05:40 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 369 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 2.396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us20007zsj Id of event.
Event Code 20007zsj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zsj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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