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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -23.0531S, 179.2677WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Saturday. Global time and date of event 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 18:48:34 / May 13, 2016 @ 6:48 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 551.11 km (342 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005h9a. Id of event: us10005h9a. Exact location, longitude 179.2677° East, latitude -23.0531° South, depth = 551.11 km. The temblor was reported at 06:48:34 / 6:48 am (local time epicenter).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: South of the Fiji Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.2677° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.0531° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 551.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South of the Fiji Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-13 18:48:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-13 18:59:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.66 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us10005h9a Id of event.
Event Code 10005h9a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005h9a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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