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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -24.1805S, 179.9624WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, south of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:38:00 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/11/25 / 2025-11-21 12:38:00 / November 21, 2025 @ 12:38 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 528.461 km (328 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.9624 East, latitude -24.1805 South, depth = 528.461 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rpjb. Event ids that are associated: us6000rpjb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: south of the Fiji Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.9624° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.1805° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 528.461 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 2025-11-21 12:38:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-21 13:02:22 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 1 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 99 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.647 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us6000rpjb Id of event.
Event Code 6000rpjb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rpjb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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