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Strong earthquake 6.5 mag, south of the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -26.0637S, -178.3645WA earthquake with magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) was reported south of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has been issued near the Fiji Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/04/25 / 2025-04-13 20:03:21 / April 13, 2025 @ 8:03 pm. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:03:21 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -178.3645 West, latitude -26.0637 South, depth = 263.259 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt25103001, us6000q5tp. Id of event: us6000q5tp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 263.259 km (164 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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 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: south of the Fiji Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3645° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.0637° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 263.259 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Fiji Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-13 20:03:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-13 20:20:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1 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 650 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 ,pt,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000q5tp Id of event.
Event Code 6000q5tp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt25103001,us6000q5tp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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