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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.714S, -178.5241WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 265 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (165 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 02:56:43 / August 19, 2018 @ 2:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000gimy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gimy. Exact location, longitude -178.5241° West, latitude -17.714° South, depth = 536.67 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 536.67 km (333 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:56:43 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eighty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 265 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.5241° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.714° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 536.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 265km 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 2018-08-19 02:56:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-08 21:24:29 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 312 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 3.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000gimy Id of event.
Event Code 1000gimy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gimy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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