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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on June 4, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.9789S, -178.4487WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 236 km E of Levuka, Fiji (147 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000mq7x. Event ids that are associated: us7000mq7x. Exact location, longitude -178.4487° West, latitude -17.9789° South, depth = 586.005 km. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:00:02 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 586.005 km (364 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/06/24 / 2024-06-04 10:00:02 / June 4, 2024 @ 10:00 am.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 236 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4487° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9789° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 586.005 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 236 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 2024-06-04 10:00:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-04 10:15:20 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 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us7000mq7x Id of event.
Event Code 7000mq7x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mq7x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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