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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 108 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on October 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.6074S, 166.2476WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. Exact location, longitude 166.2476° East, latitude -11.6074° South, depth = 35 km. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:57:44 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 00:57:44 / October 17, 2018 @ 12:57 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hd5b. Unique identifier: us1000hd5b.

Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Event epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lata.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 108 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.2476° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.6074° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km SSE 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 2018-10-17 00:57:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-17 01:18:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.25 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 6.559 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hd5b Id of event.
Event Code 1000hd5b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hd5b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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