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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.3796S, -178.1183WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 258 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (160 miles). Exact location of event, depth 541.12 km, -178.1183° West, -18.3796° South. Global time and date of event 20/06/19 / 2019-06-20 00:59:29 / June 20, 2019 @ 12:59 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 541.12 km (336 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:59:29 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us600043h8. Event ids that are associated: us600043h8.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 258 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1183° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.3796° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 541.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 258km NNE 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 2019-06-20 00:59:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-27 01:12:42 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 3.696 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us600043h8 Id of event.
Event Code 600043h8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600043h8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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