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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -23.8084S, -179.8754WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -179.8754 West, latitude -23.8084 South, depth = 505.33 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 505.33 km (314 miles). Global time and date of event 28/07/16 / 2016-07-28 09:10:33 / July 28, 2016 @ 9:10 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:10:33 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us100069i7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069i7.

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

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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: South of the Fiji Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.8754° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.8084° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 505.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South of the Fiji Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-28 09:10:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 13:09:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 6.336 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us100069i7 Id of event.
Event Code 100069i7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069i7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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