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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.3218S, -178.7315WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 224 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (139 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 545.76 km (339 miles). Global time and date of event 07/05/17 / 2017-05-07 14:17:36 / May 7, 2017 @ 2:17 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10008rvw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008rvw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.7315 West, latitude -17.3218 South, depth = 545.76 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:17:36 / 2:17 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: 224 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.7315° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3218° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 545.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 224km ESE 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 2017-05-07 14:17:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-28 13:21:52 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 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 3.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us10008rvw Id of event.
Event Code 10008rvw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008rvw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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