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Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on January 19, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.3507S, 161.2795WA earthquake with magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact location, longitude 161.2795° East, latitude -10.3507° South, depth = 33.59 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pt17019050, us10007u7n, at00ok1ura. Unique identifier: us10007u7n. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/01/17 / 2017-01-19 23:04:20 / January 19, 2017 @ 11:04 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kirakira in Solomon Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.59 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:04:20 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop), 126 km (78 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taro’a, Kirakira (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.2795° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.3507° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km W 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 2017-01-19 23:04:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-19 23:21:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 1 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 712 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 ,pt,us,at, 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 1.594 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007u7n Id of event.
Event Code 10007u7n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt17019050,us10007u7n,at00ok1ura, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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