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M 5 earthquake - south of the Fiji Islands

Reported by USGS M2.5+ Earthquakes, Past Day

USGS reports a magnitude 5 earthquake south of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 509.065 km. The source lists coordinates -23.7469, -179.7358 and a tsunami flag of 0.

At a glance

  • Affected location: south of the Fiji Islands
  • Magnitude 5
  • Depth 509.065 km
A map of North Fiji Basin made with GPlates using data sets described below. Gibbons, A., Zahirovic, S., Müller, R., Whittaker, J., and Yatheesh, V., 2015, A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys: Gondwana Research FOCUS. Amante, C. and Eakins, B. W. 2009. ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS NGDC-24, 19.
Illustrative image: A map of North Fiji Basin made with GPlates using data sets described below. Gibbons, A., Zahirovic, S., Müller, R., Whittaker, J., and Yatheesh, V., 2015, A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys: Gondwana Research FOCUS. Amante, C. and Eakins, B. W. 2009. ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS NGDC-24, 19. — Fama Clamosa/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The report records an offshore earthquake and states that the USGS tsunami flag is 0.

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Confidence
7/10
Geographic reach
1/10
Global importance
3/10
Impact magnitude
4/10
Urgency
3/10

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