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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 189 km E of Suva, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.0633S, -179.7689WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 189 km E of Suva, Fiji (117 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000hglg. Event ids that are associated: us2000hglg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -179.7689 West, latitude -18.0633 South, depth = 619.87 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:48:58 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 22:48:58 / September 6, 2018 @ 10:48 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 619.87 km (385 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 189 km E of Suva, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.7689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.0633° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 619.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189km E of Suva, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-06 22:48:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-21 05:40:37 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 271 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 2.098 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us2000hglg Id of event.
Event Code 2000hglg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hglg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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