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Magnitude 6.8 - SOLOMON ISLANDS
Preliminary Earthquake Report |
A strong earthquake occurred at 08:27:53 (UTC) on Friday, October 8, 2004.
The magnitude 6.8 event has been located in the SOLOMON ISLANDS.
(This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)
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Location Maps: Did you feel it? Historical Moment Tensor Solutions |
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For more information, go to http://neic.usgs.gov/ || Contacts
The official magnitude for this earthquake is indicated at the top of this page. This was the best available estimate of the earthquake's size, at the time that this page was created. Other magnitudes associated with web pages linked from here are those determined at various times following the earthquake with different types of seismic data. Although, given the data used, they are legitimate estimates of magnitude, they are not considered the official magnitude.
The
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
is part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP)
led by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
U.S.
Geological Survey, a bureau of the U.S. Department
of the Interior |