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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 28 km SW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands

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Earthquake location -10.6608S, 161.7657WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Unique identifier: us10007m9m. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007m9m. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 01:33:14 / December 16, 2016 @ 1:33 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.81 km (23 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:33:14 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.7657 East, latitude -10.6608 South, depth = 37.81 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.7657° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.6608° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SW 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 2016-12-16 01:33:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-13 23:29:27 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 2.163 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us10007m9m Id of event.
Event Code 10007m9m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007m9m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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