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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, South of the Fiji Islands

Posted by admin on January 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.3041S, -179.793WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 507.86 km (316 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.793 West, latitude -24.3041 South, depth = 507.86 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:33:57 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/19 / 2019-01-31 14:33:57 / January 31, 2019 @ 2:33 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000jb9t. Event ids that are associated: us2000jb9t.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-six 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: South of the Fiji Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.793° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.3041° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 507.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South of the Fiji Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-31 14:33:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-31 14:49:18 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 465 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 5.195 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us2000jb9t Id of event.
Event Code 2000jb9t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jb9t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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