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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Lata in Solomon Islands

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Earthquake location -12.2154S, 166.6832WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 191 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands (119 miles). Exact location, longitude 166.6832° East, latitude -12.2154° South, depth = 240.113 km. The temblor was reported at 17:33:49 / 5:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000mtqq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mtqq. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 17:33:49 / April 17, 2024 @ 5:33 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 240.113 km (149 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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 191 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.6832° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.2154° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 240.113 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 191 km SSE 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 2024-04-17 17:33:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-25 20:20:21 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 271 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 9.804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us6000mtqq Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtqq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtqq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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