Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Dadali in Solomon Islands

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Dadali in Solomon Islands. Id of earthquake: us60006s7q. Event ids that are associated: us60006s7q. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:46:48 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 16:46:48 / December 16, 2019 @ 4:46 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 158.9552° East, -8.4069° South, depth 77.93 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.93 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buala (min 5000 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 one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 40 km SSW of Dadali, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	158.9552° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.4069° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	77.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km SSW of Dadali, 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	2019-12-16 16:46:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-16 17:05:10	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	3.928	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	465	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	7.943	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us60006s7q	Id of event.
Event Code	60006s7q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60006s7q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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