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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 260 km N of Ndoi Island, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.3035S, -178.4767WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 260 km N of Ndoi Island, Fiji (162 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/18 / 2018-08-27 21:43:46 / August 27, 2018 @ 9:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000h8r9. Event ids that are associated: us2000h8r9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 522.41 km (325 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:43:46 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 522.41 km, -178.4767° West, -18.3035° South.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 260 km N of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4767° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.3035° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 522.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 260km N 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 2018-08-27 21:43:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-10 23:17:24 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 3.348 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 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 us2000h8r9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000h8r9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h8r9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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