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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -8.5692S, 158.9696WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Solomon Islands kilometers (0 miles) from Solomon Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004nzw. Unique identifier: us70004nzw. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 14:00:58 / July 10, 2019 @ 2:00 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 118.37 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 158.9696° East, latitude -8.5692° South, depth = 118.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:00:58 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buala (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.9696° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.5692° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 2019-07-10 14:00:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-07 07:56:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 284 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 8.04 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us70004nzw Id of event.
Event Code 70004nzw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004nzw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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