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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.8015S, 161.2714WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Id of earthquake: us7000c7z7. Event ids that are associated: us7000c7z7. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.73 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 161.2714 East, latitude -10.8015 South, depth = 26.73 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/20 / 2020-10-30 14:47:02 / October 30, 2020 @ 2:47 pm. The temblor was detected at 14:47:02 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.2714° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.8015° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km WSW 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 2020-10-30 14:47:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-30 18:27:20 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 326 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 1.879 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 173 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 us7000c7z7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c7z7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c7z7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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