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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.7055S, 161.467WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 00:53:51 / December 9, 2016 @ 12:53 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:53:51 / 11:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 161.467 East, latitude -10.7055 South, depth = 42.47 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20007zck. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007zck. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.47 km (26 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 56 km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.467° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7055° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km WSW 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 00:53:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-09 01:20:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 385 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 1.955 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us20007zck Id of event.
Event Code 20007zck An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zck, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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