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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on December 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.8896S, 161.1925WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The temblor was picked up at 08:48:33 / 8:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20007zbi. Event ids that are associated: us20007zbi. Exact location of event, longitude 161.1925 East, latitude -10.8896 South, depth = 21.15 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.15 km (13 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 21:48:33 / December 8, 2016 @ 9:48 pm.

Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.1925° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.8896° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km WSW 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 2016-12-08 21:48:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-08 22:28:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.76 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 465 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 1.892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us20007zbi Id of event.
Event Code 20007zbi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zbi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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