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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Honiara in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -9.2198S, 159.8554WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000643u. Unique identifier: us2000643u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:36:04 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 08:36:04 / June 7, 2016 @ 8:36 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 66.33 km, 159.8554° East, -9.2198° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 66.33 km (41 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tulaghi, Honiara.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 25 km NNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8554° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.2198° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NNW 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 2016-06-07 08:36:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-24 10:38:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 259 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 0.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us2000643u Id of event.
Event Code 2000643u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000643u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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