- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 25, 1926 CE
- Location:
- Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal
- Magnitude:
- 7.5 Mw
- Depth:
- 15 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 7.5
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.9
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 7.48
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.93
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 7.09
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 6.01
Other earthquake records of 1926 CE
- Turkey, Armenia · Mw 5.9 · 400 deaths
- Azores, Fayal Island · Mw 5.8 · 9 deaths
- Greece, Rhodes Island, Lower Egypt · Mw 7
- Italy, N
- Japan, Ryukyu Islands · M 7.5
- Indonesia, Sumatera · Mw 6.6
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Global Significant Earthquake Database, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K · License: U.S. Government Work · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1926 CE Earthquake — Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal happen?
- January 25, 1926 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Global Significant Earthquake Database, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.