Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Honiara in Solomon Islands

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 104 kilometers (65 miles) from Honiara in Solomon Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/25 / 2025-03-04 07:07:43 / March 4, 2025 @ 7:07 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:07:43 / 7:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 160.7882° East, latitude -9.8908° South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pwrb. Event ids that are associated: us6000pwrb.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Honiara, Taro’a. Country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Honiara (c. 56 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Taro’a (c. 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 104 km ESE of Honiara, Solomon Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.7882° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-9.8908° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104 km ESE of Honiara, 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	2025-03-04 07:07:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-04 07:27:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	433	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.943	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us6000pwrb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pwrb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pwrb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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