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Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag was detected near Lambasa in Fiji

Posted by admin on November 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.9S, -178.8WA earthquake magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) strikes 253 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (157 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Lambasa in Fiji (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:25:46 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 546 km (339 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -178.8 West, latitude -17.9 South, depth = 546 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/11/18 / 2018-11-18 20:25:46 / November 18, 2018 @ 8:25 pm. Event id: at00pieoqx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18322000, at00pieoqx.

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

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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. 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: 253 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.8° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 546 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 253km SE of Lambasa, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-18 20:25:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-18 20:34:19 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 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 732 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 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 75.599993952001 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pieoqx Id of event.
Event Code 00pieoqx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18322000,at00pieoqx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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