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Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake: Solomon Islands

Summary

The red marker denotes the earthquake epicenter.

On Thu Dec 8th 2016 17:38:47 (UTC) the seismic network recorded an earthquake (preliminary 7.7 mwb) located in Solomon Islands. Seismic region Bismarck And Solomon Islands.

The epicentral distance (i.e. distance separating the location to the epicenter) to the closest station SCI2 in the network is 9,763.0 km.

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Details

Time:Thu Dec 8th 2016 17:38:47 (UTC)
Magnitude:7.7 mwb
Location:(-10.6741,161.3351)
Depth:48.7 km
Author:USGS:us
evid,orid:1195394,1230596
nass,ndef:84,0
Authoritative:y

Proximity to Population Centers

Event and active stations

The red marker denotes the earthquake epicenter.

Seismic waveforms for closest station

Closest station with identified signal. Not filtered.

Seismic waveforms for vertical channels in network

Subset of several stations close to the event. Not filtered.

Signal description at some stations

STA_CHANS-E DeltaS-E AzimuthPhase TimeSignal/NoiseTime ResidualV. ModelAutharid
SOL_HHZ88.695°256.4°PcP2016-12-08 17:51:36.5731 UTC164.7-0.181iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288300
CPE_HHZ88.823°256.47°P2016-12-08 17:51:36.379 UTC368.970.398iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288299
SMER_HHZ88.903°256.43°P2016-12-08 17:51:36.9524 UTC351.260.596iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288301
RDM_HHZ89.205°256.6°P2016-12-08 17:51:37.6722 UTC-1-0.099iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288387
BCCC_HHZ89.239°256.62°P2016-12-08 17:51:37.8312 UTC-1-0.099iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288388
RHIL_HHZ89.277°256.64°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.6053 UTC-10.497iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288394
CRY_HHZ89.279°256.66°PcP2016-12-08 17:51:38.8166 UTC243.16-0.521iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288274
BZN_HHZ89.319°256.7°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.2584 UTC386.21-0.05iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288267
GVAR1_HHZ89.327°256.68°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.3958 UTC248.830.05iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288292
WMC_HHZ89.332°256.7°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.3673 UTC308.57-0iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288283
JORD_HHZ89.333°256.72°P2016-12-08 17:51:37.8243 UTC371.38-0.547iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288276
KNW_HHZ89.334°256.68°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.6261 UTC-10.248iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288401
TMSP_HHZ89.337°256.7°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.691 UTC-10.298iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288402
FRD_HHZ89.373°256.74°P2016-12-08 17:51:37.7129 UTC302.5-0.845iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288281
TFRD_HHZ89.373°256.74°P2016-12-08 17:51:37.564 UTC-1-0.994iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288405
LVA2_HHZ89.373°256.76°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.4595 UTC350.03-0.099iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288298
SND_HHZ89.377°256.73°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.8765 UTC205.20.298iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288279
MONP2_HHZ89.382°256.85°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.6488 UTC502.70.05iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288272
TR03_HHZ89.499°256.84°P2016-12-08 17:51:39.0752 UTC-1-0.071iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288413
TR02_HHZ89.506°256.84°P2016-12-08 17:51:39.1093 UTC-1-0.071iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288414
TR01_HHZ89.51°256.85°PcP2016-12-08 17:51:39.8231 UTC303.76-0.532iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288288
PFO_HHZ89.515°256.82°P2016-12-08 17:51:38.5965 UTC-1-0.628iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288418
TRO_HHZ89.523°256.84°P2016-12-08 17:51:39.814 UTC342.990.556iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631288296

External resources

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