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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Ndoi Island in Fiji

Posted by admin on January 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.7736S, -178.4452WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 29 km ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (18 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 593.35 km (369 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/01/16 / 2016-01-10 17:10:48 / January 10, 2016 @ 5:10 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:10:48 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -178.4452° West, -20.7736° South, depth 593.35 km. Unique identifier: us10004dbt. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004dbt.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4452° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.7736° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 593.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-10 17:10:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-10 17:25:49 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 4.474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us10004dbt Id of event.
Event Code 10004dbt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004dbt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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