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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 115 km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.7783S, 162.925WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 115 km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands (71 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:24:15 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/09/17 / 2017-09-19 08:24:15 / September 19, 2017 @ 8:24 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000awmg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000awmg. Exact location of event, depth 56.21 km, 162.925° East, -10.7783° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 56.21 km (35 miles).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 115 km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.925° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7783° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km ESE 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 2017-09-19 08:24:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-02 05:57:35 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 340 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 3.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us2000awmg Id of event.
Event Code 2000awmg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000awmg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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