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Strong earthquake: M6.5 quake has struck near Ndoi Island in Fiji

Posted by admin on September 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.4S, -178.4WA earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 41 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (25 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 617 km (383 miles). Unique identifier: at00px5tik. Ids that are associated to the event: at00px5tik, pt19244000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/09/19 / 2019-09-01 15:54:20 / September 1, 2019 @ 3:54 pm. Exact location, longitude -178.4° West, latitude -20.4° South, depth = 617 km. The temblor was reported at 03:54:20 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Ndoi Island in Fiji (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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: 41 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.4° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 617 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NE 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 2019-09-01 15:54:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-01 16:08:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 650 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 ,at,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 62 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 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79.199993664001 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 at00px5tik Id of event.
Event Code 00px5tik An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00px5tik,pt19244000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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