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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.7161S, 162.461WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 65 kilometers (40 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, longitude 162.461° East, latitude -10.7161° South, depth = 82.98 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005ml5. Id of event: us70005ml5. The temblor was picked up at 09:08:04 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/09/19 / 2019-09-21 22:08:04 / September 21, 2019 @ 10:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 82.98 km (52 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 65 km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.461° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7161° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km ESE 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 2019-09-21 22:08:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-04 05:20:51 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 2.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us70005ml5 Id of event.
Event Code 70005ml5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005ml5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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