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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Lata in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.8598S, 166.8015WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 166 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands (103 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ac2e. Unique identifier: us7000ac2e. The temblor was detected at 11:41:28 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/06/20 / 2020-06-20 11:41:28 / June 20, 2020 @ 11:41 am. Exact location of event, longitude 166.8015 East, latitude -11.8598 South, depth = 231.09 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 231.09 km (144 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 166 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.8015° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.8598° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 231.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 166 km 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 2020-06-20 11:41:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-17 06:06:47 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 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 3.587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us7000ac2e Id of event.
Event Code 7000ac2e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ac2e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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