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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.2128S, -177.8381WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 284 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (176 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/11/15 / 2015-11-02 03:04:08 / November 2, 2015 @ 3:04 am. Event id: us20004194. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004194. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.8381 West, latitude -18.2128 South, depth = 612.82 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:04:08 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 612.82 km (381 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 284 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8381° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.2128° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 612.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 284km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-02 03:04:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-02 03:23:26 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 3.938 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us20004194 Id of event.
Event Code 20004194 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004194, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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