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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.6755S, 161.6401WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:15:38 / 2:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/11/20 / 2020-11-11 14:15:38 / November 11, 2020 @ 2:15 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000cddx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cddx. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 85.49 km (53 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 161.6401 East, latitude -10.6755 South, depth = 85.49 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km SW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.6401° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.6755° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km SW 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 2020-11-11 14:15:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-18 10:10:36 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 340 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 2.07 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us7000cddx Id of event.
Event Code 7000cddx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cddx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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