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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -19.6489S, -177.9849WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 133 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/05/19 / 2019-05-18 21:33:02 / May 18, 2019 @ 9:33 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 583.71 km (363 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us60003rru. Unique identifier: us60003rru. Exact location of event, longitude -177.9849 West, latitude -19.6489 South, depth = 583.71 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:33:02 / 9:33 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 133 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9849° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.6489° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 583.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133km NE 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 2019-05-18 21:33:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-29 21:33:58 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 246 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 4.206 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us60003rru Id of event.
Event Code 60003rru An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003rru, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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