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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Lata in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on November 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.7905S, 166.0552WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/19 / 2019-11-06 16:10:55 / November 6, 2019 @ 4:10 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 03:10:55 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 109.88 km, 166.0552° East, -10.7905° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 109.88 km (68 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700063yt. Id of event: us700063yt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata. Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km ESE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.0552° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7905° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km ESE 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 2019-11-06 16:10:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-06 16:28:04 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 385 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 4.761 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us700063yt Id of event.
Event Code 700063yt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700063yt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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