A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Dadali in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g97i. Unique identifier: us2000g97i. The temblor was picked up at 07:27:56 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 46.67 km (29 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 20:27:56 / July 19, 2018 @ 8:27 pm. Exact location, longitude 158.8616° East, latitude -7.8348° South, depth = 46.67 km.
The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buala.
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 30 km NW of Dadali, Solomon Islands.
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