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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 88 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.1713S, 161.1604WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/04/20 / 2020-04-06 01:12:53 / April 6, 2020 @ 1:12 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us70008pmf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008pmf. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.31 km (41 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.1604 East, latitude -10.1713 South, depth = 65.31 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:12:53 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 88 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.1604° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.1713° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km 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 2020-04-06 01:12:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-06 01:33:14 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 1.399 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 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 us70008pmf Id of event.
Event Code 70008pmf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008pmf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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