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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Gizo in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -7.5405S, 156.2994WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.2994° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.5405° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 km NW of Gizo, 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 2024-10-18 05:25:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-18 05:55:27 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 369 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.071 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 64 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 us6000nzhb Id of event.
Event Code 6000nzhb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nzhb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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