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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Lautoka in Fiji

Posted by admin on September 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.929S, 176.2533WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 227 km NW of Lautoka, Fiji (141 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.22 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003jal. Unique identifier: us20003jal. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 15:19:26 / September 14, 2015 @ 3:19 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 176.2533 East, latitude -15.929 South, depth = 15.22 km. The temblor was detected at 03:19:26 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 227 km NW of Lautoka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.2533° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.929° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 227km NW of Lautoka, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-14 15:19:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-14 15:36:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 385 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 2.496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us20003jal Id of event.
Event Code 20003jal An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003jal, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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