Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Fiji region


Earthquake location -17.9651S, -177.9705WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Fiji region (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 18:43:56 / August 19, 2018 @ 6:43 pm. The temblor was picked up at 06:43:56 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -177.9705° West, latitude -17.9651° South, depth = 576.55 km. 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 576.55 km (358 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000gdfc. Event ids that are associated: us1000gdfc.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Fiji region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9651° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 576.55 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 2018-08-19 18:43:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-19 18:59:56 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 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 449 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 3.793 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000gdfc Id of event.
Event Code 1000gdfc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gdfc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply