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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Lata in Solomon Islands


Earthquake location -12.1999S, 166.6475WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 186 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands (116 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/03/20 / 2020-03-15 23:33:13 / March 15, 2020 @ 11:33 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us60008g8y. Unique identifier: us60008g8y. The temblor was detected at 10:33:13 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.78 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 166.6475 East, latitude -12.1999 South, depth = 70.78 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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. 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: 186 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.6475° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.1999° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 186km SSE of Lata, 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 2020-03-15 23:33:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-15 23:50:34 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 3.272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us60008g8y Id of event.
Event Code 60008g8y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008g8y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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