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Light earthquake 4 mag, 322 km E of Levuka, Fiji


Earthquake location -18.1987S, -177.6355WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 322 km E of Levuka, Fiji (200 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -177.6355 West, latitude -18.1987 South, depth = 392.71 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/06/20 / 2020-06-06 21:18:25 / June 6, 2020 @ 9:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000aang. Id of event: us6000aang. The temblor was reported at 21:18:25 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 392.71 km (244 miles).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five 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: 322 km E of Levuka, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.6355° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1987° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 392.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 322 km E of Levuka, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-06 21:18:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-18 02:23:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 4.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 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 us6000aang Id of event.
Event Code 6000aang An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aang, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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