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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Kirakira in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -10.7679S, 161.913WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands. The temblor was reported at 20:41:54 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.25 km (25 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/15 / 2015-08-03 09:41:54 / August 3, 2015 @ 9:41 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 161.913° East, latitude -10.7679° South, depth = 40.25 km. Id of earthquake: us10002xfm. Event ids that are associated: us10002xfm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirakira. The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Kirakira (c. 1 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

Each 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-two 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 34 km S of Kirakira, Solomon Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.913° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7679° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km S 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 2015-08-03 09:41:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-03 10:06:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 449 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 2.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us10002xfm Id of event.
Event Code 10002xfm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xfm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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