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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Levuka in Fiji


Earthquake location -18.2197S, -177.8613WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 299 km E of Levuka, Fiji (186 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 03:28:45 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/20 / 2020-09-24 03:28:45 / September 24, 2020 @ 3:28 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c35v. Unique identifier: us6000c35v. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 590.4 km (367 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -177.8613° West, -18.2197° South, depth 590.4 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 299 km E of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8613° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.2197° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 590.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 299 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 2020-09-24 03:28:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-09 04:19:04 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 3.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us6000c35v Id of event.
Event Code 6000c35v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c35v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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