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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Fiji region


Earthquake location -17.9486S, -178.024WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Fiji region (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.024 West, latitude -17.9486 South, depth = 547.38 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 547.38 km (340 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:24:52 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/08/18 / 2018-08-25 07:24:52 / August 25, 2018 @ 7:24 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000h779. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000h779.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days two hundred and fifty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.024° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9486° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 547.38 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 2018-08-25 07:24:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-19 08:26:40 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 259 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 3.742 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 97 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 us2000h779 Id of event.
Event Code 2000h779 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h779, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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