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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.5009S, 161.3323WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:19:41 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 18:19:41 / July 17, 2020 @ 6:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 66.39 km, 161.3323° East, -10.5009° South. Id of earthquake: us6000b2ty. Event ids that are associated: us6000b2ty. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.39 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

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 fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 64 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.3323° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.5009° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km W 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 2020-07-17 18:19:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-14 19:29:16 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 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 1.724 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000b2ty Id of event.
Event Code 6000b2ty An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b2ty, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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