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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Honiara in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on April 29, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -9.8524S, 159.6266WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000dugi. Event ids that are associated: us1000dugi. The temblor was reported at 18:55:16 / 6:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 159.6266° East, -9.8524° South, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/18 / 2018-04-29 07:55:16 / April 29, 2018 @ 7:55 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Honiara. Epicenter of the event was 59 km (36 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 58 km SW of Honiara, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.6266° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.8524° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SW 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 2018-04-29 07:55:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-29 22:07:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us1000dugi Id of event.
Event Code 1000dugi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dugi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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