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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Nadi in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.4494S, 176.3176WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 136 km WSW of Nadi, Fiji (85 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/01/17 / 2017-01-14 21:19:31 / January 14, 2017 @ 9:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 176.3176 East, latitude -18.4494 South, depth = 27.06 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.06 km (17 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:19:31 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10007tb5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007tb5.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 136 km WSW of Nadi, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.3176° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.4494° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 136km WSW of Nadi, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-14 21:19:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-14 22:11:59 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 1.793 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 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 us10007tb5 Id of event.
Event Code 10007tb5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007tb5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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