A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Gizo in Solomon Islands. Exact location, longitude 156.2994° East, latitude -7.5405° South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 18/10/24 / 2024-10-18 05:25:16 / October 18, 2024 @ 5:25 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:25:16 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000nzhb. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nzhb.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gizo. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Gizo (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen 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 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. 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: 86 km NW of Gizo, Solomon Islands.
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