M 4.5 earthquake – Fiji region
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Local time: Aug 14, 2018 · 14:31 (UTC+13)
LightDeep · 543 km
Reviewed by a seismologist
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- Magnitude
- 4.5body-wave magnitude (mb)
- Depth
- 543 kmDeep earthquake
- Epicenter
- -20.387, -178.249328 km from Nuku‘alofa
- Energy released
- 85 tons of TNTless than one Hiroshima bomb
- Felt reports
- —"Did You Feel It?" responses
- Shaking intensity
- —not estimated
- Aftershocks
- 5M2.5+ within 30 km, up to 60 days
- Significance
- 312USGS score, 0–1,000+
Not rare around here
An earthquake at least as strong struck within 300 km on Aug 11, 2018.
How strong was it?
Light earthquake. It released 85 tons of TNT, 5.6 times less than a magnitude 5.0. Bars use the magnitude scale: every step is about 32 times more energy.
Aftershocks
5 earthquakes of M2.5+ within 30 km in the 60 days after.
The strongest earthquakes within 300 km
Since 1900, around Fiji.
- 8.2 2018 Fiji Earthquake Aug 19, 2018
- 7.8 192 km WSW of Haveluloto, Tonga Oct 14, 1997
- 7.8 159 km W of Pangai, Tonga Dec 14, 1950
- 7.8 Fiji region Jan 1, 1919
- 7.7 Fiji region Aug 19, 2002
- 7.6 240 km E of Levuka, Fiji Mar 9, 1994
- 7.6 178 km E of Levuka, Fiji Feb 22, 1909
- 7.5 262 km WNW of Haveluloto, Tonga May 21, 1962