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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on December 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.4255S, 161.232WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 22:31:20 / December 8, 2016 @ 10:31 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200081bz. Id of event: us200081bz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:31:20 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 161.232 East, latitude -10.4255 South, depth = 35 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety, in the last 10 days ninety-one, in the past 30 days ninety-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.232° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.4255° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km W 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 2016-12-08 22:31:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-26 04:10:25 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 298 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 1.6 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us200081bz Id of event.
Event Code 200081bz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081bz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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