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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Suva in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.1645S, -179.7202WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 194 km E of Suva, Fiji (121 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.7202 West, latitude -18.1645 South, depth = 643.65 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 643.65 km (400 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000h9j1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000h9j1. The temblor was detected at 04:31:33 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 16:31:33 / September 6, 2018 @ 4:31 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 194 km E of Suva, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.7202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1645° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 643.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 194km E of Suva, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-06 16:31:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-06 16:52:35 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 1 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 465 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 2.16 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000h9j1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000h9j1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h9j1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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