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Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag was detected near Lambasa in Fiji

Posted by admin on August 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.9533S, -178.0278WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) strikes 282 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (175 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 422.93 km (263 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pt18231002, at00pdoxsb, us1000gcwt. Unique identifier: us1000gcwt. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:28:59 / 4:28 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Lambasa in Fiji (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -178.0278 West, latitude -16.9533 South, depth = 422.93 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 04:28:59 / August 19, 2018 @ 4:28 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 282 km ESE of Lambasa, 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 -178.0278° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.9533° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 422.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 282km ESE 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 2018-08-19 04:28:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-19 04:47:17 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 3.36 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 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 ,pt,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 3.825 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.47 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000gcwt Id of event.
Event Code 1000gcwt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18231002,at00pdoxsb,us1000gcwt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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