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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 73 km E of Kirakira, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.4433S, 162.5925WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us60006r85. Event ids that are associated: us60006r85. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.6 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 162.5925 East, latitude -10.4433 South, depth = 43.6 km. Global time and date of event 06/12/19 / 2019-12-06 14:14:37 / December 6, 2019 @ 2:14 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 01:14:37 / 1:14 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km E of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.5925° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.4433° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km E 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 2019-12-06 14:14:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-03 12:04:40 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 284 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 6.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us60006r85 Id of event.
Event Code 60006r85 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006r85, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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