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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 275 km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna


Earthquake location -16.6855S, -177.4317WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 275 km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna (171 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.4317 West, latitude -16.6855 South, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:05:50 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 01/02/18 / 2018-02-01 11:05:50 / February 1, 2018 @ 11:05 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us1000cdn0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cdn0.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 275 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 -177.4317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.6855° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 275km 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 2018-02-01 11:05:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-01 12:25:22 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 6.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us1000cdn0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cdn0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cdn0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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