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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.3612S, 161.4509WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported Solomon Islands kilometers (0 miles) from Solomon Islands on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83.54 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 161.4509° East, -10.3612° South, depth 83.54 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/19 / 2019-08-19 20:58:09 / August 19, 2019 @ 8:58 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:58:09 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000576s. Unique identifier: us6000576s.

Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira. The epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.4509° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.3612° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 2019-08-19 20:58:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-22 19:19:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.742 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us6000576s Id of event.
Event Code 6000576s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000576s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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