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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near the Loyalty Islands


Earthquake location -21.9154S, 170.8589WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes southeast of the Loyalty Islands (0 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 09:18:00 / April 19, 2024 @ 9:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 170.8589 East, latitude -21.9154 South, depth = 87.011 km. Unique identifier: us7000md3k. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000md3k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:18:00 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87.011 km (54 miles).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: southeast of the Loyalty Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 170.8589° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.9154° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.011 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 2024-04-19 09:18:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-15 14:26:00 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 3.246 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 500 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 193 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.236 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us7000md3k Id of event.
Event Code 7000md3k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000md3k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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