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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Auki in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on March 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.0408S, 160.831WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Auki in Solomon Islands on Saturday. Exact location, longitude 160.831° East, latitude -8.0408° South, depth = 50.66 km. Unique identifier: us20008sx1. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008sx1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 50.66 km (31 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:57:55 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/17 / 2017-03-18 00:57:55 / March 18, 2017 @ 12:57 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Auki (c. 6 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Auki (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 81 km N of Auki, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.831° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.0408° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km N of Auki, 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 2017-03-18 00:57:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-18 01:15:37 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 369 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 1.64 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us20008sx1 Id of event.
Event Code 20008sx1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008sx1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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