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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Lata in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on July 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.9221S, 166.5052WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 153 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands (95 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qdc6. Id of event: us7000qdc6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/25 / 2025-07-18 02:49:32 / July 18, 2025 @ 2:49 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 200.273 km (124 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 200.273 km, 166.5052° East, -11.9221° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:49:32 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 153 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.5052° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.9221° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 200.273 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153 km SSE of Lata, 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 2025-07-18 02:49:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-18 03:19:52 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 354 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 20.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us7000qdc6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qdc6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qdc6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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