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Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Lata in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on February 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.3827S, 166.1829WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/25 / 2025-02-23 18:16:22 / February 23, 2025 @ 6:16 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 166.1829 East, latitude -11.3827 South, depth = 77.394 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 77.394 km (48 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pfmk. Unique identifier: us7000pfmk. The temblor was reported at 18:16:22 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 84 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.1829° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.3827° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.394 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km SSE 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 2025-02-23 18:16:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-23 18:32:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 554 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 90 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.16 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 37 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 us7000pfmk Id of event.
Event Code 7000pfmk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pfmk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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