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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Lata in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.8877S, 166.2308WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. The temblor was reported at 04:56:37 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 147.8 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 17:56:37 / July 29, 2015 @ 5:56 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10002w12. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002w12. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.2308 East, latitude -10.8877 South, depth = 147.8 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km ESE of Lata, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.2308° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.8877° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km ESE of Lata, Solomon Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-29 17:56:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-29 18:18:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 449 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.629 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002w12 Id of event.
Event Code 10002w12 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002w12, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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