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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on January 9, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8959S, -178.5205WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 229 km E of Levuka, Fiji (142 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.5205 West, latitude -17.8959 South, depth = 572.12 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:23:01 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 572.12 km (355 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d6zw. Id of event: us6000d6zw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/01/21 / 2021-01-09 08:23:01 / January 9, 2021 @ 8:23 am.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 229 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.5205° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8959° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 572.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 229 km E of Levuka, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-09 08:23:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-09 08:40:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 416 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 3.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us6000d6zw Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6zw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d6zw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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