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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Leava in Wallis and Futuna


Earthquake location -15.6495S, -178.7347WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 162 km SSW of Leava, Wallis and Futuna (101 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:42:07 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/21 / 2021-01-25 20:42:07 / January 25, 2021 @ 8:42 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -178.7347 West, latitude -15.6495 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d38u. Id of event: us7000d38u. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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 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: 162 km SSW of Leava, Wallis and Futuna.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.7347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.6495° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162 km SSW of Leava, 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 2021-01-25 20:42:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-25 21:14:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 400 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 1.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us7000d38u Id of event.
Event Code 7000d38u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d38u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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