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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Lata in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.6839S, 165.9397WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/19 / 2019-08-21 20:03:12 / August 21, 2019 @ 8:03 pm. Exact location, longitude 165.9397° East, latitude -10.6839° South, depth = 96.53 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:03:12 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us700058uk. Event ids that are associated: us700058uk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 96.53 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata. Epicenter of the event was 12 km (8 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 12 km ENE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 165.9397° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.6839° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ENE 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 2019-08-21 20:03:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-28 18:17:11 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 4.892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us700058uk Id of event.
Event Code 700058uk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700058uk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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