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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Dadali in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -7.7919S, 158.9989WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Dadali in Solomon Islands. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/11/19 / 2019-11-03 20:56:44 / November 3, 2019 @ 8:56 pm. Id of earthquake: us700062nl. Event ids that are associated: us700062nl. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.12 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 07:56:44 / 7:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 51.12 km, 158.9989° East, -7.7919° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buala (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 28 km N of Dadali, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.9989° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.7919° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km N 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 2019-11-03 20:56:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-03 21:18:53 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 326 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 1.886 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us700062nl Id of event.
Event Code 700062nl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700062nl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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