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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near the Loyalty Islands


Earthquake location -23.1881S, 171.7596WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, southeast of the Loyalty Islands (0 miles). Event id: us6000dii3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dii3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 171.7596° East, -23.1881° South, depth 12.63 km. Global time and date of event 17/02/21 / 2021-02-17 22:49:38 / February 17, 2021 @ 10:49 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.63 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:49:38 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: southeast of the Loyalty Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 171.7596° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.1881° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.63 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 2021-02-17 22:49:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-17 23:06:35 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 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 572 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 3.847 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us6000dii3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dii3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dii3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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