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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.7819S, -178.6537WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 257 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (160 miles). Unique identifier: us20004xz5. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004xz5. Global time and date of event 05/02/16 / 2016-02-05 01:13:51 / February 5, 2016 @ 1:13 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:13:51 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 567.51 km (353 miles). Exact location, longitude -178.6537° West, latitude -17.7819° South, depth = 567.51 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 257 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.6537° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.7819° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 567.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 257km SE 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 2016-02-05 01:13:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-04 02:25:35 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 3.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us20004xz5 Id of event.
Event Code 20004xz5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004xz5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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