Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.9571S, -178.3018WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 299 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (186 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 591.69 km, -178.3018° West, -17.9571° South. Id of earthquake: us2000jhdn. Event ids that are associated: us2000jhdn. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/19 / 2019-01-29 23:29:25 / January 29, 2019 @ 11:29 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 591.69 km (368 miles). The temblor was detected at 11:29:25 / 11:29 am (local time epicenter).

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

How would you describe the shaking?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 299 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3018° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9571° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 591.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 299km SE of Lambasa, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-29 23:29:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-14 03:15:04 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 298 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 3.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us2000jhdn Id of event.
Event Code 2000jhdn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jhdn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply