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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 174 km SW of Nadi, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.9264S, 176.2604WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 174 km SW of Nadi, Fiji (108 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 23:34:11 / January 3, 2017 @ 11:34 pm. Exact location, longitude 176.2604° East, latitude -18.9264° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pka. Id of event: us10007pka. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:34:11 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 174 km SW of Nadi, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.2604° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.9264° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 174km SW of Nadi, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-03 23:34:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-04 00:03:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 3.3 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 2.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us10007pka Id of event.
Event Code 10007pka An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007pka, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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