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

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 156 km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji (97 miles) on Saturday. Unique identifier: us10004re6. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004re6. The temblor was detected at 03:56:16 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 579.66 km, -179.4298° West, -21.8918° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 579.66 km (360 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/02/16 / 2016-02-20 15:56:16 / February 20, 2016 @ 3:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 156 km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji. 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	-179.4298° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-21.8918° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	579.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	156km SSW 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	2016-02-20 15:56:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-20 16:17:33	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	7.446	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us10004re6	Id of event.
Event Code	10004re6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004re6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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