Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 61 km SSE of Honiara, Solomon Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000gbwb. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gbwb. Exact location of event, longitude 160.0905 East, latitude -9.9732 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:29:46 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 15:29:46 / July 18, 2018 @ 3:29 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (39 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Honiara (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 61 km SSE of Honiara, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.0905° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-9.9732° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61km SSE 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	2018-07-18 15:29:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-01 03:31:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	660	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	271	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	0.549	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	us2000gbwb	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gbwb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gbwb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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