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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 150 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.8558S, 166.5896WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 150 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands (93 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 178.82 km (111 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.5896 East, latitude -11.8558 South, depth = 178.82 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ad3. Id of event: us10006ad3. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/16 / 2016-08-01 15:49:06 / August 1, 2016 @ 3:49 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:49:06 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 150 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.5896° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.8558° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 178.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 150km 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 2016-08-01 15:49:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 19:36:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 312 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 8.924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10006ad3 Id of event.
Event Code 10006ad3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ad3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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