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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Levuka in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.6255S, -178.8837WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 196 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji (122 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:35:02 / 12:35 pm (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 event in UTC/GMT: 20/06/20 / 2020-06-20 12:35:02 / June 20, 2020 @ 12:35 pm. Event id: us7000ac2j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ac2j. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 538.19 km (334 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.8837 West, latitude -17.6255 South, depth = 538.19 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 196 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.8837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6255° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 538.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 196 km ENE 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 2020-06-20 12:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-17 10:24:20 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 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 2.922 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us7000ac2j Id of event.
Event Code 7000ac2j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ac2j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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