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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on May 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.7752S, 161.8846WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact location of event, depth 104.1 km, 161.8846° East, -10.7752° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/18 / 2018-04-18 16:10:27 / April 18, 2018 @ 4:10 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:10:27 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 104.1 km (65 miles). Unique identifier: us1000drbe. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000drbe.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).

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 fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 35 km S of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.8846° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7752° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km S 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 2018-04-18 16:10:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 02:30:02 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 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 2.324 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 132 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 us1000drbe Id of event.
Event Code 1000drbe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000drbe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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