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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 105 km ESE of Honiara, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -9.952S, 160.7543WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 105 kilometers (65 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands. The temblor was picked up at 20:17:16 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter). 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: 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 09:17:16 / December 16, 2016 @ 9:17 am. Exact location of event, longitude 160.7543 East, latitude -9.952 South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008195. Unique identifier: us20008195. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taro’a (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 105 km ESE of Honiara, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.7543° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.952° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km ESE of Honiara, 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 2016-12-16 09:17:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-16 13:39:58 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 326 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 0.944 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us20008195 Id of event.
Event Code 20008195 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008195, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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