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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.585S, 179.8828WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 139 kilometers (86 miles) from Lambasa in Fiji on Friday. 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 620.11 km (385 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:07:53 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008k9e. Id of event: us70008k9e. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/03/20 / 2020-03-27 01:07:53 / March 27, 2020 @ 1:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.8828 East, latitude -17.585 South, depth = 620.11 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levuka (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 139 km SSE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.8828° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.585° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 620.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 139km SSE 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 2020-03-27 01:07:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-02 02:27:26 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 271 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 1.752 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 135 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 us70008k9e Id of event.
Event Code 70008k9e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008k9e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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