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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 296 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.234S, -177.4915WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 296 km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (184 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 643.18 km (400 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 643.18 km, -177.4915° West, -18.234° South. The temblor was picked up at 01:30:05 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/10/19 / 2019-10-18 13:30:05 / October 18, 2019 @ 1:30 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us60006298. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006298.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 296 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 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.4915° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.234° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 643.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 296km 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 2019-10-18 13:30:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-25 08:29:42 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 259 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 3.95 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us60006298 Id of event.
Event Code 60006298 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006298, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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