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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on September 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8809S, -178.0547WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 279 km E of Levuka, Fiji (173 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 556.57 km (346 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 556.57 km, -178.0547° West, -17.8809° South. Event id: us7000bm9g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bm9g. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:37:29 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/09/20 / 2020-09-12 02:37:29 / September 12, 2020 @ 2:37 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (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 twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 279 km E of Levuka, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0547° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8809° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 556.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 279 km E 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 2020-09-12 02:37:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-12 02:54:34 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 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 482 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 3.553 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000bm9g Id of event.
Event Code 7000bm9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bm9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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