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

Posted by admin on December 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.7555S, 161.3085WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:26:00 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 43.73 km, 161.3085° East, -10.7555° South. Id of earthquake: us20007zrd. Event ids that are associated: us20007zrd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.73 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 07:26:00 / December 10, 2016 @ 7:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days eighty-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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 74 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.3085° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7555° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km WSW of Kirakira, 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 2016-12-10 07:26:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-10 07:48:25 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 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 1.873 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 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 us20007zrd Id of event.
Event Code 20007zrd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zrd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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