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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Sigave in Wallis and Futuna


Earthquake location -15.6812S, -177.4238WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 172 km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna (107 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -177.4238° West, -15.6812° South, depth 397.05 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/02/17 / 2017-02-13 12:31:55 / February 13, 2017 @ 12:31 pm. Unique identifier: us20008ji6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008ji6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 397.05 km (247 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:31:55 / 12:31 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 172 km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.4238° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.6812° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 397.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 172km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-13 12:31:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-13 12:52:02 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 7.841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us20008ji6 Id of event.
Event Code 20008ji6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008ji6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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