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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 294 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.0647S, -178.0437WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 294 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (183 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/18 / 2018-09-26 00:37:33 / September 26, 2018 @ 12:37 am. Unique identifier: us2000hk13. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hk13. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.0437 West, latitude -18.0647 South, depth = 577.8 km. The temblor was reported at 12:37:33 / 12:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 577.8 km (359 miles).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 294 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0437° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0647° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 577.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 294km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-26 00:37:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-26 00:57:32 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 1.95 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 500 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 3.73 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us2000hk13 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hk13 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hk13, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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