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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, southeast of the Loyalty Islands


Earthquake location -22.7803S, 171.6739WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, southeast of the Loyalty Islands (0 miles). The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:23:53 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 01:23:53 / April 24, 2024 @ 1:23 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 171.6739° East, -22.7803° South, depth 8 km. Id of earthquake: us6000mtc7. Event ids that are associated: us6000mtc7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: southeast of the Loyalty Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 171.6739° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.7803° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southeast of the Loyalty Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-24 01:23:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-02 22:15:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 green 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 101 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.89 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 18 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 us6000mtc7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtc7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtc7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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