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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Lata in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on August 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.4102S, 166.287WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. Event id: us600057ee. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600057ee. 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 53.6 km (33 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 166.287 East, latitude -11.4102 South, depth = 53.6 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:03:54 / 12:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/19 / 2019-08-20 13:03:54 / August 20, 2019 @ 1:03 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.287° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.4102° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km 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 2019-08-20 13:03:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-20 13:23:39 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 4.837 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 554 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 4.11 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 42 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 us600057ee Id of event.
Event Code 600057ee An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600057ee, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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