Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Fiji region

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Fiji region (0 miles). Unique identifier: us1000gclw. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gclw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:58:31 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 510 km (317 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.0782 West, latitude -17.8508 South, depth = 510 km. Global time and date of event 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 00:58:31 / August 19, 2018 @ 12:58 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: Fiji region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.0782° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.8508° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	510 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Fiji region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-19 00:58:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-19 01:17:58	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		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	449	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	3.687	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	us1000gclw	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gclw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gclw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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