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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Suva in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.6981S, 179.6129WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 138 kilometers (86 miles) from Suva in Fiji on Saturday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:38:06 / 7:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 19:38:06 / September 28, 2018 @ 7:38 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 655.81 km (408 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h74e. Unique identifier: us1000h74e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 655.81 km, 179.6129° East, -18.6981° South.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levuka. Close country/countries, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 138 km ESE of Suva, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.6129° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.6981° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 655.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km ESE 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 2018-09-28 19:38:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-20 20:43:59 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 1.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 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 us1000h74e Id of event.
Event Code 1000h74e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h74e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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