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Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag was detected near Ndoi Island in Fiji

Posted by admin on September 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.8379S, -178.27WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (62 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ndoi Island in Fiji (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00oe12bt, us10006scr. Id of event: us10006scr. Exact location, longitude -178.27° West, latitude -19.8379° South, depth = 594.56 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/16 / 2016-09-24 21:28:41 / September 24, 2016 @ 9:28 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:28:41 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 594.56 km (369 miles).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.27° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.8379° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 594.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km NNE 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 2016-09-24 21:28:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-24 21:46:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 2.76 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 711 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 ,at,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 4.058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006scr Id of event.
Event Code 10006scr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oe12bt,us10006scr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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