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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.2206S, 163.2856WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 171 km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands (106 miles). Unique identifier: us6000c6tx. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c6tx. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.69 km (13 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:27:45 / 4:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 163.2856 East, latitude -11.2206 South, depth = 20.69 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/10/20 / 2020-10-08 16:27:45 / October 8, 2020 @ 4:27 pm UTC/GMT.

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 171 km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 163.2856° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.2206° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171 km 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 2020-10-08 16:27:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-08 16:55:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 369 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 3.731 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us6000c6tx Id of event.
Event Code 6000c6tx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c6tx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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