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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 82 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.5421S, 161.1675WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 28.72 km (18 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:50:30 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us200080ga. Event ids that are associated: us200080ga. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/12/16 / 2016-12-13 15:50:30 / December 13, 2016 @ 3:50 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 161.1675 East, latitude -10.5421 South, depth = 28.72 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventy, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.1675° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.5421° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km W of Kirakira, 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 2016-12-13 15:50:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-13 17:03:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 385 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 1.626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us200080ga Id of event.
Event Code 200080ga An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200080ga, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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