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Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag was detected near Ndoi Island in Fiji

Posted by admin on September 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.3722S, -178.0949WA earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was reported 260 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (162 miles) on Saturday. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:52:23 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -178.0949° West, -18.3722° South, depth 551.19 km. Id of earthquake: us1000h4l1. Event ids that are associated: at00pfv7ja, us1000h4l1, pt18273000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 551.19 km (342 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ndoi Island in Fiji (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/09/18 / 2018-09-30 10:52:23 / September 30, 2018 @ 10:52 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 260 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0949° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.3722° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 551.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 260km 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 2018-09-30 10:52:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-30 11:11:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.78 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 670 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 ,at,us,pt, 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 3.717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us1000h4l1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000h4l1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pfv7ja,us1000h4l1,pt18273000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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