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Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake: Solomon Islands

Summary

The red marker denotes the earthquake epicenter.

On Fri Dec 9th 2016 19:10:07 (UTC) the seismic network recorded an earthquake (preliminary 6.9 mww) 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 9,787.2 km.

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Details

Time:Fri Dec 9th 2016 19:10:07 (UTC)
Magnitude:6.9 mww
Location:(-10.7298,161.107)
Depth:20.6 km
Author:USGS:us
evid,orid:1196560,1231805
nass,ndef:56,0
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
CPE_HHZ89.04°256.55°P2016-12-09 19:23:00.778 UTC-10.029iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289234
SMER_HHZ89.119°256.51°P2016-12-09 19:23:00.8654 UTC10.241-0.254iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289145
RDM_HHZ89.421°256.68°P2016-12-09 19:23:02.6329 UTC-10.1iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289240
BCCC_HHZ89.455°256.7°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.0042 UTC11.8030.313iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289148
RHIL_HHZ89.493°256.73°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.3941 UTC-10.525iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289274
CRY_HHZ89.496°256.75°P2016-12-09 19:23:02.4159 UTC11.111-0.466iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289146
RRSP_HHZ89.514°256.74°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.2793 UTC-10.313iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289243
BZN_HHZ89.536°256.78°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.2408 UTC-10.171iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289244
GVAR1_HHZ89.544°256.76°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.2068 UTC11.630.1iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289154
WMC_HHZ89.548°256.78°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.0161 UTC-1-0.112iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289246
JORD_HHZ89.549°256.8°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.5162 UTC-10.383iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289248
KNW_HHZ89.55°256.76°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.1671 UTC12.8020.029iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289152
TMSP_HHZ89.554°256.78°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.3955 UTC-10.242iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289249
FRD_HHZ89.589°256.82°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.4902 UTC-10.171iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289251
TFRD_HHZ89.589°256.82°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.6319 UTC-10.313iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289277
LVA2_HHZ89.59°256.84°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.7756 UTC-10.454iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289252
SND_HHZ89.594°256.81°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.5814 UTC-10.242iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289253
MONP2_HHZ89.599°256.92°P2016-12-09 19:23:03.748 UTC12.5220.383iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289150
TR04_HHZ89.711°256.92°P2016-12-09 19:23:04.1988 UTC-10.313iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289256
TR03_HHZ89.715°256.92°P2016-12-09 19:23:04.1496 UTC-10.242iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289257
TR02_HHZ89.723°256.92°P2016-12-09 19:23:04.0419 UTC-10.1iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289258
TR01_HHZ89.726°256.93°P2016-12-09 19:23:04.1301 UTC-10.171iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289259
PFO_HHZ89.732°256.9°P2016-12-09 19:23:04.0849 UTC-10.1iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289262
TRO_HHZ89.739°256.92°P2016-12-09 19:23:04.5441 UTC-10.525iasp91dbp:jtytell:1631289282

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