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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on June 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.4761S, -178.9443WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 195 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji (121 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 546.87 km (340 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000aerr. Event ids that are associated: us6000aerr. Exact location, longitude -178.9443° West, latitude -17.4761° South, depth = 546.87 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/06/20 / 2020-06-19 10:07:56 / June 19, 2020 @ 10:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:07:56 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter).

Every 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 eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-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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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: 195 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.9443° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.4761° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 546.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 195 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-19 10:07:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-19 10:28:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.687 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 500 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 2.876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us6000aerr Id of event.
Event Code 6000aerr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aerr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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