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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Ndoi Island in Fiji

Posted by admin on November 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.8048S, -177.818WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 93 km E of Ndoi Island, Fiji (58 miles). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:13:27 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 493.61 km (307 miles). Exact location of event, depth 493.61 km, -177.818° West, -20.8048° South. Global time and date of event 17/11/19 / 2019-11-17 12:13:27 / November 17, 2019 @ 12:13 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000694m. Unique identifier: us7000694m.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-one 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km E of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.818° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.8048° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 493.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km E 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 2019-11-17 12:13:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-17 12:30:29 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 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 4.947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us7000694m Id of event.
Event Code 7000694m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000694m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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