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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.9636S, 161.3167WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 19:43:26 / December 9, 2016 @ 7:43 pm. Unique identifier: us20007zm1. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zm1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.67 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:43:26 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 33.67 km, 161.3167° East, -10.9636° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 86 km SW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.3167° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.9636° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km SW of Kirakira, 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 2016-12-09 19:43:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-09 20:06:48 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 4.04 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 2.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20007zm1 Id of event.
Event Code 20007zm1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zm1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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