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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 193 km N of Ndoi Island, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.9184S, -178.9328WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 193 km N of Ndoi Island, Fiji (120 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/10/18 / 2018-10-25 17:09:03 / October 25, 2018 @ 5:09 pm. Unique identifier: us2000i4ma. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000i4ma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 575.57 km (358 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -178.9328° West, -18.9184° South, depth 575.57 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:09:03 / 5:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 193 km N of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.9328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.9184° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 575.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 193km 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 2018-10-25 17:09:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-31 17:37:20 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 3.092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 225 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 us2000i4ma Id of event.
Event Code 2000i4ma An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i4ma, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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