Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Lata in Solomon Islands

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 165.8972 East, latitude -10.76 South, depth = 99.097 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 99.097 km (62 miles). Event id: us6000npqs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000npqs. Global time and date of event 04/09/24 / 2024-09-04 19:09:18 / September 4, 2024 @ 7:09 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:09:18 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata. Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Lata (c. 600 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 11 km ESE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	165.8972° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.76° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	99.097 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km ESE 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	2024-09-04 19:09:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-04 19:28:03	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	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	105	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.004	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us6000npqs	Id of event.
Event Code	6000npqs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000npqs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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