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

Posted by admin on June 7, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.802S, 165.6531WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Friday. The temblor was reported at 03:15:14 / 3:15 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ekh6. Unique identifier: us1000ekh6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 16:15:14 / June 7, 2018 @ 4:15 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 40.11 km, 165.6531° East, -10.802° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.11 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lata.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 165.6531° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.802° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WSW of Lata, 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 2018-06-07 16:15:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-07 16:34:33 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 5.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 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 us1000ekh6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ekh6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ekh6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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