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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, Fiji region


Earthquake location -17.0078S, -176.8682WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes Fiji region (0 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 18:10:46 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -176.8682 West, latitude -17.0078 South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004m2i. Unique identifier: us70004m2i. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 06:10:46 / July 17, 2019 @ 6:10 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Fiji region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.8682° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.0078° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fiji region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-17 06:10:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 06:29:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 2.943 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us70004m2i Id of event.
Event Code 70004m2i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004m2i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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