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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Suva in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.1943S, 179.2006WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Suva in Fiji. Exact location of event, longitude 179.2006 East, latitude -18.1943 South, depth = 638.91 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 23:40:14 / September 6, 2018 @ 11:40 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 638.91 km (397 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:40:14 / 11:40 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hglm. Id of event: us2000hglm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Suva (c. 77 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suva, Levuka.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 80 km E of Suva, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.2006° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1943° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 638.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km 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 23:40:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-22 03:18:35 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 1.18 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us2000hglm Id of event.
Event Code 2000hglm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hglm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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