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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on June 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.2631S, 161.1162WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Exact location of event, depth 16.58 km, 161.1162° East, -10.2631° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ez7w. Unique identifier: us1000ez7w. The temblor was picked up at 11:33:38 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/06/18 / 2018-06-23 00:33:38 / June 23, 2018 @ 12:33 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.58 km (10 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira. Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 90 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.1162° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.2631° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km WNW 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 2018-06-23 00:33:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-23 00:54:57 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 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 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 1.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us1000ez7w Id of event.
Event Code 1000ez7w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ez7w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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