Significant earthquake of magnitude 5.3 just reported 86 km west of Honiara, Solomon Islands

Just 8 minutes ago, a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Honiara, Solomon Islands. The tremor was recorded in the evening on Monday, May 11th, 2026, at 8:48 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 10. km below the surface.
The event was filed by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 5.3 as well.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Malango (pop. 10,500) located 71 km from the epicenter, Tandai (pop. 24,600) 86 km away, Honiara (pop. 56,300) 86 km away, Malango (pop. 15,600) 97 km away, and Tulagi (pop. 1,800) 111 km away.
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Earthquake data:
Date & time: May 11, 2026 09:48 am (Universal Time) local time (11 May 2026 09:48 GMT)
Magnitude: 5.4
Depth: 10.00 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 9.31°S / 159.13°E (Honiara, Solomon Islands)
Primary data source: GFZ
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