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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -19.5018S, -177.6455WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 168 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (104 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/17 / 2017-01-02 12:16:36 / January 2, 2017 @ 12:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:16:36 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 575.55 km (358 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10007uar. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007uar. Exact location of event, depth 575.55 km, -177.6455° West, -19.5018° South.

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

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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: 168 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.6455° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.5018° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 575.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 168km NE 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 2017-01-02 12:16:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-23 13:54:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 259 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 4.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us10007uar Id of event.
Event Code 10007uar An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007uar, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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