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Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 48 km ESE of Gizo, Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on September 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.3287S, 157.2172WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Gizo in Solomon Islands on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:57:52 / 10:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hgcc. Unique identifier: us2000hgcc. Exact location, longitude 157.2172° East, latitude -8.3287° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 11:57:52 / September 18, 2018 @ 11:57 am.

Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Gizo (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gizo (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 48 km ESE of Gizo, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.2172° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3287° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km ESE of Gizo, 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 2018-09-18 11:57:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-18 12:32:47 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 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.74 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 518 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 2.914 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us2000hgcc Id of event.
Event Code 2000hgcc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hgcc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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