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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Sigave in Wallis and Futuna


Earthquake location -15.9553S, -177.5577WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 194 km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna (121 miles) on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d86r. Id of event: us1000d86r. The temblor was picked up at 05:32:33 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/03/18 / 2018-03-23 17:32:33 / March 23, 2018 @ 5:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -177.5577° West, -15.9553° South, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 194 km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.5577° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.9553° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 194km 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 2018-03-23 17:32:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-23 18:34:45 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 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 400 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 4.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us1000d86r Id of event.
Event Code 1000d86r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d86r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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