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USGS usc000stet

1 Nov 2014, 22:13

10 km SSE of Malango, Solomon Islands

A magnitude 5.3 ms_20 earthquake at 24.5 km depth.

Depth24.5 kmPublished hypocentral depth

Tsunami flagNot flaggedUSGS catalog flag, not a current warning

Updated27 July 2022Latest timestamp stored in this record

Published location

Where is 10 km SSE of Malango, Solomon Islands?

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-9.782200, 159.757600

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Catalog fields and provenance

Event ID

usc000stet

Coordinates

-9.7822, 159.7576

Network

us

Significance

433