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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Dadali in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -9.3909S, 157.9829WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 188 km SW of Dadali, Solomon Islands (117 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:27:51 / 12:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 157.9829 East, latitude -9.3909 South, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/17 / 2017-07-17 13:27:51 / July 17, 2017 @ 1:27 pm. Unique identifier: us20009z0i. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009z0i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 188 km SW of Dadali, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.9829° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.3909° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 188km SW of Dadali, 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 2017-07-17 13:27:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-26 19:20:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 1.939 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us20009z0i Id of event.
Event Code 20009z0i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009z0i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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