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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Buala in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -8.3446S, 158.99WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Buala in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000mrtq. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mrtq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 109.369 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/24 / 2024-06-11 21:43:10 / June 11, 2024 @ 9:43 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.99 East, latitude -8.3446 South, depth = 109.369 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:43:10 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buala. Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 69 km WSW of Buala, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.99° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3446° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.369 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km WSW of Buala, 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 2024-06-11 21:43:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-11 22:04:37 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 298 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us7000mrtq Id of event.
Event Code 7000mrtq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mrtq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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