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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.1435S, 161.5777WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 161.5777 East, latitude -10.1435 South, depth = 97.76 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hghf. Unique identifier: us1000hghf. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/18 / 2018-10-19 14:23:58 / October 19, 2018 @ 2:23 pm. The temblor was detected at 01:23:58 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97.76 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 50 km NW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.5777° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.1435° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km NW 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 2018-10-19 14:23:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-26 07:05:43 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 298 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 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us1000hghf Id of event.
Event Code 1000hghf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hghf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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