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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on December 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.9501S, 161.57WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008002. Id of event: us20008002. 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: 11/12/16 / 2016-12-11 17:26:09 / December 11, 2016 @ 5:26 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 161.57° East, -10.9501° South. The temblor was picked up at 04:26:09 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 66 km SW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.57° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.9501° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SW 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 2016-12-11 17:26:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-11 17:43:22 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 432 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 2.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us20008002 Id of event.
Event Code 20008002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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