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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -23.4123S, -179.7097WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, South of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:06:47 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000dsmc. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dsmc. Exact location of earthquake, -179.7097° West, -23.4123° South, depth 556.03 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 556.03 km (346 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/18 / 2018-04-21 23:06:47 / April 21, 2018 @ 11:06 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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. 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: South of the Fiji Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.7097° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.4123° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 556.03 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 2018-04-21 23:06:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-17 04:11:41 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 6.015 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 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 us1000dsmc Id of event.
Event Code 1000dsmc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dsmc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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