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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Lata in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on July 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -12.3524S, 166.1843WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 184 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands (114 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 04:35:14 / July 17, 2019 @ 4:35 am. Id of earthquake: us70004m1d. Event ids that are associated: us70004m1d. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:35:14 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.1843 East, latitude -12.3524 South, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 184 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.1843° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.3524° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184km SSE of Lata, 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 2019-07-17 04:35:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 04:54:43 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 400 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 3.231 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us70004m1d Id of event.
Event Code 70004m1d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004m1d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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