OBSERVED · EARTHQUAKE · USGS US7000TX16

Magnitude 6.4, 30 km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands.

Occurred 19 hours ago (2026-11-09 03:34 UTC). Record reviewed, last revised 3 hours ago. Fetched just now. Every number on this page comes from the USGS feed; the sentence is a template over those fields.

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake, 17 km deep, at 9 Nov 03:34 UTC, with 2 felt reports submitted. USGS places it "30 km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands".

OBSERVED · USGS · M 6.4 · 2026-11-09 03:34 UTC

DERIVED. The last earthquake at least this strong within 100 km was magnitude 7.0 on 18 Jul 2015 ("80 km WNW of Lata, Solomon Islands"). USGS ComCat search: earthquakes within 100 km of this epicentre, magnitude 6.4 or more, from 1 Jan 1900 to just before this one, newest first. Magnitudes of different types are compared as the catalogue publishes them.

ESTIMATE · USGS PAGER · GREEN. The USGS's own estimate of likely fatalities and economic losses for this earthquake, from its PAGER model. ESTIMATE: the source's own model estimate, not a count. PAGER at the USGS

Epicentre at -10.867, 165.562 (USGS). The dashed ring is 100 km. Coastlines from Natural Earth (public domain), drawn from the coordinate; nothing placed by hand.

OBSERVED · USGS event us7000tx16 · reviewed · origin 2026-11-09 03:34 UTC · record updated 2026-11-09 19:21 UTC · -10.867, 165.562 · depth 17.0 km · significance 631 · 2 felt reports submittedOccurred 19 hours ago · record revised 3 hours ago · fetched 2026-11-09 22:10 UTC. The evidence class is OBSERVED because the USGS reports it happened; how recent the event or the revision is changes nothing about that. Felt reports are the “Did You Feel It?” reports people sent the USGS, not a count of who felt it. Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program (public domain). This page is regenerated from the USGS event id and is not stored by yank.

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