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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Auki in Solomon Islands

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Auki in Solomon Islands on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:17:47 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.5003 East, latitude -8.7499 South, depth = 52.28 km. Event id: us200063dk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200063dk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 04:17:47 / June 10, 2016 @ 4:17 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.28 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buala, Honiara, Taro’a (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Auki (c. 6 800 pop), 120 km (75 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km W of Auki, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.5003° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.7499° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km W of Auki, 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	2016-06-10 04:17:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-10 04:40:39	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	4.36	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	536	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	0.875	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us200063dk	Id of event.
Event Code	200063dk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200063dk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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