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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 173 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.8893S, 166.8571WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 173 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands (107 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 15:36:21 / 3:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 166.8571 East, latitude -11.8893 South, depth = 198.87 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/20 / 2020-12-17 15:36:21 / December 17, 2020 @ 3:36 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000d1v9. Event ids that are associated: us6000d1v9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 198.87 km (124 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 173 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.8571° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.8893° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 198.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173 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 2020-12-17 15:36:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-12 22:45:22 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 312 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 7.214 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us6000d1v9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d1v9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d1v9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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