A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands. Unique identifier: us2000j9hs. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j9hs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 159.2341 East, latitude -9.2275 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/01/19 / 2019-01-27 19:35:39 / January 27, 2019 @ 7:35 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:35:39 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tulaghi, Honiara (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 81 km WNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands.
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