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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Honiara in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -9.6694S, 159.9365WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands. Exact location of earthquake, 159.9365° East, -9.6694° South, depth 39.05 km. The temblor was reported at 18:42:22 / 6:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 39.05 km (24 miles). Id of earthquake: us100031uu. Event ids that are associated: us100031uu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 07:42:22 / July 24, 2015 @ 7:42 am.

Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tulaghi, Honiara. Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 26 km S of Honiara, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.9365° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.6694° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km S 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 2015-07-24 07:42:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-22 10:04:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 298 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 0.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us100031uu Id of event.
Event Code 100031uu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031uu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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