Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Fiji region

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, Fiji region (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/20 / 2020-07-21 20:56:24 / July 21, 2020 @ 8:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 602.12 km (374 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.5723 West, latitude -20.8319 South, depth = 602.12 km. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:56:24 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000asms. Unique identifier: us7000asms.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.5723° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.8319° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	602.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Fiji region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-21 20:56:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-21 21:17:16	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	0	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	554	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	4.426	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us7000asms	Id of event.
Event Code	7000asms	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000asms,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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