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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 58 km NNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -9.9411S, 161.7761WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 06:02:47 / 6:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/18 / 2018-01-12 19:02:47 / January 12, 2018 @ 7:02 pm. Unique identifier: us2000cps6. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cps6. Exact location of event, longitude 161.7761 East, latitude -9.9411 South, depth = 76.42 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 76.42 km (47 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 58 km NNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.7761° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.9411° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NNW 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 2018-01-12 19:02:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-09 22:50:20 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 259 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 1.87 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 us2000cps6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cps6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cps6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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