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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag has occurred near Buala in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on May 3, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.9346S, 160.1156WA earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 145 km NNE of Buala, Solomon Islands (90 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.1156 East, latitude -6.9346 South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003g5a. Unique identifier: us70003g5a. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/19 / 2019-05-03 07:25:29 / May 3, 2019 @ 7:25 am. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:25:29 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 135 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 145 km NNE of Buala, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.1156° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9346° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145km NNE of Buala, 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 2019-05-03 07:25:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-03 07:46:38 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 4.024 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 572 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 2.493 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us70003g5a Id of event.
Event Code 70003g5a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003g5a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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