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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -23.4768S, -179.9105WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported south of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 535.433 km (333 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.9105 West, latitude -23.4768 South, depth = 535.433 km. The temblor was reported at 03:24:00 / 3:24 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000quaf. Event ids that are associated: us6000quaf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/25 / 2025-07-23 03:24:00 / July 23, 2025 @ 3:24 am.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 six and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: south of the Fiji Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.9105° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.4768° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 535.433 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Fiji Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-23 03:24:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-23 03:41:55 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 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 106 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000quaf Id of event.
Event Code 6000quaf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000quaf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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