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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Ndoi Island in Fiji

Posted by admin on August 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.2465S, -178.1738WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 271 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (168 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 20/08/18 / 2018-08-20 08:38:00 / August 20, 2018 @ 8:38 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:38:00 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 527.85 km (328 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000gdt6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gdt6. Exact location of event, longitude -178.1738 West, latitude -18.2465 South, depth = 527.85 km.

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

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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. 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: 271 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1738° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.2465° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 527.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 271km 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 2018-08-20 08:38:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-20 09:00:45 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 1.95 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 465 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 3.625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us1000gdt6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gdt6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gdt6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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