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USGS us6000kdce

20 May 2023, 02:50

southeast of the Loyalty Islands

A magnitude 7.1 mww earthquake at 27.3 km depth.

Depth27.3 kmPublished hypocentral depth
Tsunami flagFlaggedUSGS catalog flag, not a current warning
Updated24 July 2023Latest timestamp stored in this record

Published location

Where is southeast of the Loyalty Islands?

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-23.042100, 170.560300

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Catalog fields and provenance
Event ID
us6000kdce
Coordinates
-23.0421, 170.5603
Network
us
Significance
777