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


Earthquake location -10.6063S, 163.0871WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 128 km E of Kirakira, Solomon Islands (80 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hssl. Unique identifier: us1000hssl. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.51 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:11:13 / 4:11 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/18 / 2018-11-16 17:11:13 / November 16, 2018 @ 5:11 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 163.0871° East, latitude -10.6063° South, depth = 7.51 km.

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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 128 km E of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 163.0871° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.6063° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 128km E 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 2018-11-16 17:11:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-16 19:35:39 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 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 3.302 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 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 us1000hssl Id of event.
Event Code 1000hssl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hssl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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