Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

A earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. Unique identifier: at00peszkp. Ids that are associated to the event: pt18252000, at00peszkp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54 km (34 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 161.6° East, -10.1° South, depth 54 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/18 / 2018-09-09 19:31:36 / September 9, 2018 @ 7:31 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kirakira in Solomon Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:31:36 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taro’a, Kirakira. Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 52 km NW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	161.6° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.1° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52km NW 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	2018-09-09 19:31:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-09 19:41:24	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	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	691	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.741833	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64.799994816	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00peszkp	Id of event.
Event Code	00peszkp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt18252000,at00peszkp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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