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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near the Loyalty Islands


Earthquake location -22.3257S, 171.4996WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes southeast of the Loyalty Islands (0 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118.79 km (74 miles). Exact location, longitude 171.4996° East, latitude -22.3257° South, depth = 118.79 km. The temblor was reported at 08:44:30 / 8:44 am (local time epicenter). 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: us7000bnvp. Unique identifier: us7000bnvp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/20 / 2020-09-16 08:44:30 / September 16, 2020 @ 8:44 am.

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: southeast of the Loyalty Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 171.4996° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.3257° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southeast of the Loyalty Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-16 08:44:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-16 09:04:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0 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 482 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 3.329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us7000bnvp Id of event.
Event Code 7000bnvp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bnvp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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