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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.1218S, -178.1095WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 286 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (178 miles). Global time and date of event 21/08/18 / 2018-08-21 08:08:19 / August 21, 2018 @ 8:08 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000h5g3. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000h5g3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 611.55 km (380 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.1095 West, latitude -18.1218 South, depth = 611.55 km. The temblor was reported at 20:08:19 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 286 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1095° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1218° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 611.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 286km NNE 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 2018-08-21 08:08:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-02 12:54:56 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 246 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 3.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us2000h5g3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000h5g3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h5g3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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