EMSC - European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

Earthquake Information

Summary

Maps

Regional seismicity

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Summary:

Magnitude	M 5.0
Region	SOLOMON ISLANDS

Date time	2009-11-22 at 00:31:11.6 UTC
Location	10.06 S ; 161.17 E
Depth	86 km
Distances	1534 km E Port moresby (pop 283,733 ; local time 10:31 2009-11-22) 155 km SE Honiara (pop 56,298 ; local time 11:31 2009-11-22) 88 km NW Kirakira (pop 1,122 ; local time 11:31 2009-11-22)
More seismicity information (Moment tensors, phases pickings, etc.)

Maps:


Global view	Regional view	Local view

References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries,
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027.

Google maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area

Regional instrumental seismicity

This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.

More information at:

USGS/NEIC Denver, USA

List of data providers:

USGS/NEIC, Denver, USA (NEIR)

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