Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near the Fiji Islands

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -176.1967 West, latitude -26.9709 South, depth = 5.73 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:29:20 / 5:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.73 km (4 miles). Id of earthquake: us100032lh. Event ids that are associated: us100032lh. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 17:29:20 / August 15, 2015 @ 5:29 pm.

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

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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. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-176.1967° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-26.9709° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.73 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	2015-08-15 17:29:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-15 17:55:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	416	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	2.733	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us100032lh	Id of event.
Event Code	100032lh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100032lh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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