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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 27 km SSE of Dadali, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -8.2696S, 159.1507WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Dadali in Solomon Islands. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 13:42:25 / October 31, 2017 @ 1:42 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000bkym. Event ids that are associated: us2000bkym. The temblor was detected at 00:42:25 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 153.85 km (96 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.1507 East, latitude -8.2696 South, depth = 153.85 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buala. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km SSE of Dadali, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.1507° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2696° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 153.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SSE 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 2017-10-31 13:42:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-12 15:56:32 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 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 1.403 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 87 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 us2000bkym Id of event.
Event Code 2000bkym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bkym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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