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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.4606S, 161.3671WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/17 / 2017-01-04 21:03:47 / January 4, 2017 @ 9:03 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007r83. Id of event: us10007r83. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.31 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 08:03:47 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.3671 East, latitude -10.4606 South, depth = 55.31 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 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 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.3671° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.4606° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2017-01-04 21:03:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-04 21:22:33 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 1.728 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us10007r83 Id of event.
Event Code 10007r83 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007r83, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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