Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Fiji region

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported Fiji region (0 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 575.52 km (358 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000gil8. Event ids that are associated: us1000gil8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:39:07 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -177.9872° West, latitude -17.9146° South, depth = 575.52 km. Global time and date of event 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 00:39:07 / August 19, 2018 @ 12:39 am UTC/GMT.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.9872° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.9146° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	575.52 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 00:39:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-30 01:11:57	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	1.96	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	500	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	3.775	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us1000gil8	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gil8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gil8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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