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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -20.9902S, -178.8432WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 40 km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji (25 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 613.56 km (381 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/19 / 2019-07-30 01:21:27 / July 30, 2019 @ 1:21 am. Id of earthquake: us60004x80. Event ids that are associated: us60004x80. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:21:27 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -178.8432° West, -20.9902° South, depth 613.56 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.8432° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.9902° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 613.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SSW 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 2019-07-30 01:21:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-30 01:33:54 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 432 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 4.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us60004x80 Id of event.
Event Code 60004x80 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004x80, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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