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


Earthquake location -10.3516S, 161.4594WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 161.4594 East, latitude -10.3516 South, depth = 87.26 km. The temblor was reported at 00:45:07 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 87.26 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: 08/01/21 / 2021-01-08 00:45:07 / January 8, 2021 @ 12:45 am. Id of earthquake: us6000d6ll. Event ids that are associated: us6000d6ll.

Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.4594° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.3516° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51 km 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 2021-01-08 00:45:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-08 01:03:39 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 1.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000d6ll Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6ll An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d6ll, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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