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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near the Loyalty Islands

Posted by admin on August 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.1842S, 170.8076WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported southeast of the Loyalty Islands (0 miles) on Saturday. 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) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000r1l5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r1l5. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/25 / 2025-08-16 12:08:23 / August 16, 2025 @ 12:08 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:08:23 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 170.8076° East, -23.1842° South.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 170.8076° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.1842° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 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 2025-08-16 12:08:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-16 12:24:52 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 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us6000r1l5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1l5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1l5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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