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

Posted by admin on March 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.0485S, 164.4228WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 158 km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands (98 miles) on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 05:31:33 / March 18, 2020 @ 5:31 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 164.4228 East, latitude -11.0485 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008hml. Id of event: us60008hml. The temblor was reported at 16:31:33 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven 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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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. 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: 158 km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.4228° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.0485° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 158km WSW 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 2020-03-18 05:31:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-18 05:50:46 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 0 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 4.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us60008hml Id of event.
Event Code 60008hml An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008hml, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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