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


Earthquake location -11.1608S, 166.4455WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. Event id: us20004gvu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004gvu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.4455 East, latitude -11.1608 South, depth = 86.46 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/12/15 / 2015-12-13 10:03:23 / December 13, 2015 @ 10:03 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.46 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:03:23 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 83 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.4455° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.1608° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SE 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 2015-12-13 10:03:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-13 10:21:00 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 4.324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us20004gvu Id of event.
Event Code 20004gvu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004gvu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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