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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on February 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.3156S, 162.7673WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 132 km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands (82 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/02/16 / 2016-02-12 20:56:50 / February 12, 2016 @ 8:56 pm. Id of earthquake: us20004zu2. Event ids that are associated: us20004zu2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.2 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:56:50 / 7:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 162.7673° East, -11.3156° South, depth 9.2 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.7673° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.3156° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km 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 2016-02-12 20:56:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-12 21:17:16 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 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 400 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 3.342 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us20004zu2 Id of event.
Event Code 20004zu2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004zu2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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