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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 147 km SSE of Lambasa, Fiji

Posted by admin on November 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.6735S, 179.8372WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 147 kilometers (91 miles) from Lambasa in Fiji. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 618.9 km, 179.8372° East, -17.6735° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 13:51:32 / November 26, 2015 @ 1:51 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 618.9 km (385 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100041iu. Id of event: us100041iu. The temblor was picked up at 01:51:32 / 1:51 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levuka. Close country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop).

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 in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 147 km SSE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.8372° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6735° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 618.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km SSE of Lambasa, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-26 13:51:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 14:10:11 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 1.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us100041iu Id of event.
Event Code 100041iu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041iu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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