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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 106 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -11.5097S, 166.3839WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, 166.3839° East, -11.5097° South, depth 54.26 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.26 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/07/19 / 2019-07-02 08:00:15 / July 2, 2019 @ 8:00 am. Id of earthquake: us700048j0. Event ids that are associated: us700048j0. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:00:15 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lata (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 thirty-six 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 106 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.3839° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.5097° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km SE 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 2019-07-02 08:00:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-02 08:21:39 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 4.086 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 482 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 6.656 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 48 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 us700048j0 Id of event.
Event Code 700048j0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700048j0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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