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Earthquake 6.8 mb, South of the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -24.6S, 179.3WAn earthquake with magnitude 6.8 mg has occurred in South of the Fiji Islands. Time of event: Sunday 4th May @ 9:15 am UTC. Location of event: 179.3S, -24.6W, depth=578 km. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about quake recorded in: South of the Fiji Islands. Did you feel it? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country.


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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.3° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.6° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 578 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 2014-05-04 09:15:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-05-04 09:22:49 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 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 1 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 711 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ptat A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64.8 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00n51lqg Id of event.
Event Code 00n51lqg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS pt14124000at00n51lqg A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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