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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.2911S, -178.648WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 231 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (144 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:30:45 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter). 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: us10002ldr. Id of event: us10002ldr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 562.41 km (349 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/06/15 / 2015-06-12 08:30:45 / June 12, 2015 @ 8:30 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.648 West, latitude -17.2911 South, depth = 562.41 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 231 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.2911° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 562.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 231km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-12 08:30:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-09 13:04:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 3.18 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us10002ldr Id of event.
Event Code 10002ldr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002ldr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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