Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 32 km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c3vd. Unique identifier: us2000c3vd. Exact location of event, depth 52.07 km, 162.2073° East, -10.5246° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.07 km (32 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:58:36 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 16:58:36 / December 6, 2017 @ 4:58 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 32 km ESE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	162.2073° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.5246° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km 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	2017-12-06 16:58:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-14 03:05:10	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	259	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	2.473	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us2000c3vd	Id of event.
Event Code	2000c3vd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000c3vd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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