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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Suva in Fiji

Posted by admin on October 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.2816S, 179.3181WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Suva in Fiji on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 179.3181° East, -18.2816° South, depth 656.63 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 656.63 km (408 miles). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:56:41 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 15:56:41 / September 6, 2018 @ 3:56 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000hgln. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hgln.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Suva (c. 77 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Suva, Levuka (min 5000 pop).

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 fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 94 km E of Suva, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.3181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.2816° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 656.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km E of Suva, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-06 15:56:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-04 15:29:13 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 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 1.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us2000hgln Id of event.
Event Code 2000hgln An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hgln, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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