Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Kirakira in Solomon Islands

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Kirakira in Solomon Islands on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us200080e8. Ids that are associated to the event: us200080e8. The temblor was reported at 16:38:49 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/12/16 / 2016-12-13 05:38:49 / December 13, 2016 @ 5:38 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 161.2253° East, -10.8637° South, depth 10 km.

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

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

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	161.2253° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.8637° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	88km WSW 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	2016-12-13 05:38:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-13 05:55:05	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	432	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	1.894	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us200080e8	Id of event.
Event Code	200080e8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200080e8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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