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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -20.1242S, -177.8044WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 110 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (68 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 549.89 km (342 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/01/19 / 2019-01-27 10:16:27 / January 27, 2019 @ 10:16 am. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:16:27 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -177.8044 West, latitude -20.1242 South, depth = 549.89 km. Unique identifier: us2000j9fn. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j9fn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 110 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8044° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1242° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 549.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km ENE 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 2019-01-27 10:16:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-27 10:36:53 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 1.99 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 518 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 4.579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us2000j9fn Id of event.
Event Code 2000j9fn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j9fn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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