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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Lata in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on March 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.52S, 166.3204WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 104 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands (65 miles). Event id: us7000pn1k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pn1k. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/03/25 / 2025-03-27 12:54:24 / March 27, 2025 @ 12:54 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 58.745 km (37 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:54:24 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 166.3204° East, latitude -11.52° South, depth = 58.745 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 104 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.3204° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.52° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.745 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 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 2025-03-27 12:54:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-27 13:38:23 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.997 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us7000pn1k Id of event.
Event Code 7000pn1k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pn1k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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