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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.0362S, 161.7015WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.29 km (17 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 161.7015 East, latitude -11.0362 South, depth = 27.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 22:59:36 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 11:59:36 / December 10, 2016 @ 11:59 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us200081ke. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200081ke.

Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km SSW of Kirakira, 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 161.7015° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.0362° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SSW 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 11:59:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-27 08:32:39 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 2.345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us200081ke Id of event.
Event Code 200081ke An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081ke, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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