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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Lata in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.9198S, 166.0423WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, 166.0423° East, -10.9198° South, depth 63.62 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.62 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/03/18 / 2018-03-15 01:26:23 / March 15, 2018 @ 1:26 am. The temblor was detected at 12:26:23 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d4iu. Unique identifier: us1000d4iu.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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 SE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.0423° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.9198° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SE of Lata, 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 2018-03-15 01:26:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-15 05:24:32 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 354 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 9.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 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 us1000d4iu Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4iu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d4iu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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