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Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, Fiji region


Earthquake location -21.9139S, -179.359WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes Fiji region (0 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -179.359 West, latitude -21.9139 South, depth = 579.39 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 579.39 km (360 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/02/16 / 2016-02-20 15:51:22 / February 20, 2016 @ 3:51 pm. Unique identifier: us10004rdp. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004rdp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:51:22 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter).

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 five and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: Fiji region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.359° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.9139° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 579.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fiji region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-20 15:51:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-20 16:09:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 518 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us10004rdp Id of event.
Event Code 10004rdp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004rdp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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