Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Sigave in Wallis and Futuna

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 111 kilometers (69 miles) from Sigave in Wallis and Futuna. Exact location of event, longitude -177.7556 West, latitude -15.2219 South, depth = 408.01 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 13:32:56 / December 9, 2015 @ 1:32 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20004fve. Event ids that are associated: us20004fve. The epicenter was at a depth of 408.01 km (254 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:32:56 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 108 km (67 miles) from Alo (c. 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Wallis and Futuna (c. 16 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 111 km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.7556° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.2219° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	408.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	111km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-09 13:32:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-09 13:48:16	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	449	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	4.739	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us20004fve	Id of event.
Event Code	20004fve	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004fve,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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