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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Lata in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.887S, 166.1216WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 133 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.76 km (50 miles). Global time and date of event 23/03/19 / 2019-03-23 02:34:26 / March 23, 2019 @ 2:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 13:34:26 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k770. Id of event: us2000k770. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.1216 East, latitude -11.887 South, depth = 80.76 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 133 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.1216° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.887° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133km SSE of Lata, 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 2019-03-23 02:34:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 22:58:10 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 312 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 10.132 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us2000k770 Id of event.
Event Code 2000k770 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k770, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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