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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Lambasa in Fiji

Posted by admin on February 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8875S, -178.6641WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 263 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (163 miles). Event id: us2000czgc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000czgc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/02/18 / 2018-02-09 11:43:56 / February 9, 2018 @ 11:43 am. The temblor was picked up at 23:43:56 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.6641 West, latitude -17.8875 South, depth = 545.18 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 545.18 km (339 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 263 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.6641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8875° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 545.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 263km SE 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 2018-02-09 11:43:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-09 12:07:01 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 2.24 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 536 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 7.715 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000czgc Id of event.
Event Code 2000czgc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000czgc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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