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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Auki in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -8.4642S, 160.9592WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Auki in Solomon Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 01:41:34 / February 7, 2019 @ 1:41 am. The temblor was reported at 12:41:34 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 160.9592 East, latitude -8.4642 South, depth = 65.94 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.94 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000jek8. Event ids that are associated: us2000jek8.

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Auki (c. 6 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taro’a, Auki (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 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: 43 km NE of Auki, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.9592° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4642° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km NE of Auki, 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 2019-02-07 01:41:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-07 02:09:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.84 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 466 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 1.391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us2000jek8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jek8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jek8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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