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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 90 km NW of Gizo, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -7.5754S, 156.2113WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Gizo in Solomon Islands on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 72.26 km (45 miles). Unique identifier: us20008ua7. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008ua7. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:04:47 / 7:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 156.2113° East, latitude -7.5754° South, depth = 72.26 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/17 / 2017-03-17 21:04:47 / March 17, 2017 @ 9:04 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gizo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Gizo (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km NW of Gizo, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.2113° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.5754° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km NW of Gizo, 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 2017-03-17 21:04:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-25 21:52:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 4.133 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 94 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 us20008ua7 Id of event.
Event Code 20008ua7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008ua7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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