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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Gizo in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -8.8503S, 157.7917WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 133 km SE of Gizo, Solomon Islands (83 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 157.7917 East, latitude -8.8503 South, depth = 37.19 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000409a. Unique identifier: us1000409a. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:57:54 / 1:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/15 / 2015-11-22 02:57:54 / November 22, 2015 @ 2:57 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.19 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-nine 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.

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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: 133 km SE of Gizo, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.7917° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.8503° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133km SE 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 2015-11-22 02:57:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 03:16:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.207 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us1000409a Id of event.
Event Code 1000409a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000409a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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