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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 178 km SW of Nadi, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.9348S, 176.2175WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 178 km SW of Nadi, Fiji (111 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10007pke. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pke. Exact location of event, longitude 176.2175 East, latitude -18.9348 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 23:56:05 / January 3, 2017 @ 11:56 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:56:05 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 178 km SW of Nadi, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.2175° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.9348° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178km 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 23:56:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-04 00:38:25 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 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 385 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 2.107 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us10007pke Id of event.
Event Code 10007pke An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007pke, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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