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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Gizo in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -9.7518S, 154.8604WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 284 km SW of Gizo, Solomon Islands (176 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 22:17:21 / July 17, 2020 @ 10:17 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us6000b2u4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b2u4. Exact location, longitude 154.8604° East, latitude -9.7518° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 22:17:21 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ten 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 284 km SW of Gizo, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.8604° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.7518° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 284 km SW of Gizo, 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 2020-07-17 22:17:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-25 02:47:40 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 326 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 6.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us6000b2u4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b2u4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b2u4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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