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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 288 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.028S, -178.4888WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 288 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (179 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -178.4888 West, latitude -18.028 South, depth = 593.95 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 593.95 km (369 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:10:25 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/16 / 2016-05-10 22:10:25 / May 10, 2016 @ 10:10 pm. Id of earthquake: us10005i99. Event ids that are associated: us10005i99.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 288 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.028° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 593.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 288km 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 2016-05-10 22:10:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 01:09:40 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 3.305 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us10005i99 Id of event.
Event Code 10005i99 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005i99, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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