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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 103 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands

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Earthquake location -10.0114S, 161.0932WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Saturday. Unique identifier: us70007tqz. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007tqz. The temblor was reported at 10:19:56 / 10:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/02/20 / 2020-02-14 23:19:56 / February 14, 2020 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 36.92 km, 161.0932° East, -10.0114° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.92 km (23 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taro’a (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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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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 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: 103 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.0932° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.0114° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km WNW 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 2020-02-14 23:19:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 06:08:54 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 1.264 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us70007tqz Id of event.
Event Code 70007tqz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007tqz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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