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

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Buala in Solomon Islands. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:59:54 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60004wqi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004wqi. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/19 / 2019-07-28 08:59:54 / July 28, 2019 @ 8:59 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 65.41 km, 159.9612° East, -8.5296° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.41 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 100 km (62 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Auki (c. 6 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Buala (c. 2 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Tulaghi (c. 1 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Honiara, Auki, Tulaghi (min 5000 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 58 km SE of Buala, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.9612° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.5296° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km SE of Buala, 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	2019-07-28 08:59:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-28 09:21:19	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	0.903	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us60004wqi	Id of event.
Event Code	60004wqi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60004wqi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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