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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -20.4865S, -177.8474WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 90 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (56 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100034ci. Id of event: us100034ci. The temblor was reported at 07:14:41 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 543.59 km (338 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -177.8474° West, -20.4865° South, depth 543.59 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/08/15 / 2015-08-23 19:14:41 / August 23, 2015 @ 7:14 pm.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 90 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8474° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.4865° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 543.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km ENE 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 2015-08-23 19:14:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-23 20:08:21 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 284 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 4.739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us100034ci Id of event.
Event Code 100034ci An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034ci, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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