Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 104 kilometers (65 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.53 km (18 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:11:32 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 28.53 km, 161.0338° East, -10.1074° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/12/16 / 2016-12-20 08:11:32 / December 20, 2016 @ 8:11 am. Id of earthquake: us200082qt. Event ids that are associated: us200082qt.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 104 km (65 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirakira, Taro’a (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 104 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	161.0338° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.1074° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104km WNW 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	2016-12-20 08:11:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-20 08:28:27	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	400	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	1.26	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us200082qt	Id of event.
Event Code	200082qt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200082qt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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