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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Suva in Fiji

Posted by admin on October 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.0651S, -179.526WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 215 km E of Suva, Fiji (134 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.526 West, latitude -18.0651 South, depth = 630.29 km. Global time and date of event 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 16:02:50 / September 6, 2018 @ 4:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:02:50 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 630.29 km (392 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000hgki. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hgki.

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

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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. 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: 215 km E of Suva, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.526° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0651° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 630.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 215km 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 16:02:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-04 17:31:45 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 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level 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 432 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 2.327 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 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 us2000hgki Id of event.
Event Code 2000hgki An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hgki, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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