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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 122 km ESE of Honiara, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.0465S, 160.8844WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 122 kilometers (76 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands. Exact location of earthquake, 160.8844° East, -10.0465° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700063gm. Id of event: us700063gm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:27:00 / 9:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 10:27:00 / October 27, 2019 @ 10:27 am.

Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taro’a (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 122 km ESE of Honiara, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.8844° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.0465° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122km ESE 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 2019-10-27 10:27:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-10 12:38:53 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 1.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us700063gm Id of event.
Event Code 700063gm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700063gm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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