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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Suva in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.8601S, 179.5163WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 118 kilometers (73 miles) from Suva in Fiji on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 644.67 km (401 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:03:08 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 179.5163 East, latitude -17.8601 South, depth = 644.67 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/09/19 / 2019-09-15 14:03:08 / September 15, 2019 @ 2:03 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us60005m99. Ids that are associated to the event: us60005m99.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levuka (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 118 km ENE of Suva, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.5163° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8601° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 644.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km ENE 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 2019-09-15 14:03:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-23 16:49:32 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 1.399 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us60005m99 Id of event.
Event Code 60005m99 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005m99, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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