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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Gizo in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -8.2702S, 156.3754WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Gizo in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/02/21 / 2021-02-04 17:51:41 / February 4, 2021 @ 5:51 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000dgq2. Event ids that are associated: us6000dgq2. Exact location of event, longitude 156.3754 East, latitude -8.2702 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 17:51:41 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Gizo (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gizo (min 5000 pop).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km WSW of Gizo, 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 156.3754° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2702° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km WSW of Gizo, 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 2021-02-04 17:51:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-16 21:28:15 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 3.716 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us6000dgq2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dgq2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dgq2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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