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


Earthquake location -8.5926S, 156.4949WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Gizo in Solomon Islands on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k7u6. Unique identifier: us2000k7u6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/03/19 / 2019-03-31 00:09:27 / March 31, 2019 @ 12:09 am. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:09:27 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 156.4949 East, latitude -8.5926 South, depth = 10 km.

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 Gizo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Gizo (c. 6 200 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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 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: 66 km SW of Gizo, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.4949° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.5926° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SW of Gizo, 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 2019-03-31 00:09:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-31 00:29:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 0 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 3.512 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us2000k7u6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000k7u6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k7u6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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