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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Lautoka in Fiji


Earthquake location -16.8127S, 177.2918WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Lautoka in Fiji on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us10003090. Event ids that are associated: us10003090. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:21:03 / 6:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 18:21:03 / August 7, 2015 @ 6:21 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 177.2918° East, latitude -16.8127° South, depth = 27.83 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.83 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lautoka, Ba (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Lautoka (c. 52 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ba (c. 14 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km NNW of Lautoka, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.2918° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.8127° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km NNW of Lautoka, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-07 18:21:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-07 19:19:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 432 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 1.178 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us10003090 Id of event.
Event Code 10003090 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003090, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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