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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near the Fiji Islands

Posted by admin on October 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.3473S, 178.8255WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, south of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/10/25 / 2025-10-16 23:07:18 / October 16, 2025 @ 11:07 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 573.03 km (356 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 178.8255 East, latitude -23.3473 South, depth = 573.03 km. Unique identifier: us6000rhnu. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rhnu. The temblor was reported at 23:07:18 / 11:07 pm (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. 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 four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.8255° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.3473° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 573.03 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 2025-10-16 23:07:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-16 23:43:58 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us6000rhnu Id of event.
Event Code 6000rhnu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rhnu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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