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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Honiara in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -9.5092S, 159.9081WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/08/19 / 2019-08-04 13:54:52 / August 4, 2019 @ 1:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 159.9081 East, latitude -9.5092 South, depth = 61.47 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600050k2. Id of event: us600050k2. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:54:52 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.47 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km (6 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tulaghi, Honiara. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSW of Honiara, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.9081° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.5092° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW 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 2019-08-04 13:54:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-04 14:26:49 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 340 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 0.08 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us600050k2 Id of event.
Event Code 600050k2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600050k2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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