A major earthquake magnitude 7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Dadali in Solomon Islands. Id of earthquake: at00ny0wrr. Event ids that are associated: at00ny0wrr, pt15322050. Exact location of event, longitude 158.7 East, latitude -8.7 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/11/15 / 2015-11-18 18:31:08 / November 18, 2015 @ 6:31 pm. The 7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:31:08 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Dadali in Solomon Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 116 km (72 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buala.
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 thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.
Questions or comments?
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: 80 km SSW of Dadali, Solomon Islands.
Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply