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Strong earthquake 6.1 mag, 152 km SW of Nadi, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.5884S, 176.2304WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) strikes 152 km SW of Nadi, Fiji (94 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 176.2304° East, -18.5884° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:11:41 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/01/17 / 2017-01-14 06:11:41 / January 14, 2017 @ 6:11 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10007t8x. Event ids that are associated: us10007t8x.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 152 km SW of Nadi, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.2304° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.5884° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 152km SW of Nadi, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-14 06:11:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-14 06:34:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.82 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 572 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 1.925 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007t8x Id of event.
Event Code 10007t8x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007t8x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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