Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Honiara in Solomon Islands

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 116 kilometers (72 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 49.35 km, 160.8403° East, -10.0017° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.35 km (31 miles). Event id: us6000bit5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bit5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/20 / 2020-08-21 23:12:33 / August 21, 2020 @ 11:12 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:12:33 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taro’a (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 four and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 116 km ESE of Honiara, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.8403° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.0017° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	116 km ESE of Honiara, 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	2020-08-21 23:12:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-21 23:33:40	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	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	1.042	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us6000bit5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bit5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bit5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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