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

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Gizo in Solomon Islands. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 156.4017 East, latitude -8.2438 South, depth = 4.343 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.343 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 19:07:46 / August 2, 2024 @ 7:07 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nhnm. Unique identifier: us6000nhnm. The temblor was reported at 19:07:46 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gizo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Gizo (c. 6 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 50 km WSW of Gizo, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	156.4017° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.2438° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.343 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50 km WSW 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	2024-08-02 19:07:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-02 19:25:43	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		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	79	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.7	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us6000nhnm	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nhnm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nhnm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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