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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.7122S, 161.0186WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20007zfr. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zfr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.65 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 161.0186° East, -10.7122° South, depth 31.65 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 09:43:02 / December 9, 2016 @ 9:43 am. The temblor was reported at 20:43:02 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 102 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.0186° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7122° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km 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 2016-12-09 09:43:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-09 10:00:01 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 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 416 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 1.647 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us20007zfr Id of event.
Event Code 20007zfr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zfr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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