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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, South of the Fiji Islands

Posted by admin on March 31, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -25.3164S, 179.6872WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 179.6872 East, latitude -25.3164 South, depth = 500.82 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008hfa. Id of event: us70008hfa. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 500.82 km (311 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:33:11 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/20 / 2020-03-23 20:33:11 / March 23, 2020 @ 8:33 pm.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: South of the Fiji Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.6872° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.3164° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 500.82 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 2020-03-23 20:33:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-31 21:03:37 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 1.428 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 449 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 4.451 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008hfa Id of event.
Event Code 70008hfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008hfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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