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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Buala in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -8.442S, 158.8344WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Buala in Solomon Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.77 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000nwlk. Event ids that are associated: us7000nwlk. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/24 / 2024-11-22 13:10:39 / November 22, 2024 @ 1:10 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:10:39 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 158.8344° East, latitude -8.442° South, depth = 75.77 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buala. The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km WSW of Buala, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.8344° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.442° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89 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 2024-11-22 13:10:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-13 04:55:20 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 271 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.48 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us7000nwlk Id of event.
Event Code 7000nwlk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nwlk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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