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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Auki in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -9.8062S, 161.0282WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 120 kilometers (75 miles) from Auki in Solomon Islands on Saturday. Event id: us2000k7i8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k7i8. The temblor was reported at 16:05:55 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 161.0282° East, latitude -9.8062° South, depth = 53.2 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 05:05:55 / March 30, 2019 @ 5:05 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.2 km (33 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taro’a.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 120 km SSE of Auki, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.0282° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.8062° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120km SSE of Auki, 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 2019-03-30 05:05:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 05:23:41 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 1.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us2000k7i8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000k7i8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k7i8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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