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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.3979S, 161.209WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.64 km (30 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.209 East, latitude -10.3979 South, depth = 47.64 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008xqe. Unique identifier: us70008xqe. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:38:23 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 17:38:23 / April 16, 2020 @ 5:38 pm.

The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Close country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 78 km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.209° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.3979° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2020-04-16 17:38:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-16 18:15:14 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 1.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008xqe Id of event.
Event Code 70008xqe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008xqe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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