Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Fiji region


Earthquake location -17.937S, -178.1238WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Fiji region (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.1238 West, latitude -17.937 South, depth = 512.31 km. Unique identifier: us1000gisn. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gisn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 512.31 km (318 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 09:44:05 / August 19, 2018 @ 9:44 am. The temblor was detected at 21:44:05 / 9:44 pm (local time epicenter).

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

How would you describe the shaking?

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. 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: Fiji region.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1238° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.937° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 512.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fiji region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-19 09:44:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-02 07:08:14 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 298 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 3.646 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us1000gisn Id of event.
Event Code 1000gisn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gisn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply