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Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 92 km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.9949S, 162.5624WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact location of earthquake, 162.5624° East, -10.9949° South, depth 8.95 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002mw0. Unique identifier: us10002mw0. The temblor was reported at 06:35:21 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.95 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 19:35:21 / July 1, 2015 @ 7:35 pm.

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 Kirakira. Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 92 km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.5624° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.9949° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km SE of Kirakira, 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 2015-07-01 19:35:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-01 19:56:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.59 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.002 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002mw0 Id of event.
Event Code 10002mw0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mw0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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