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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Fiji region


Earthquake location -18.1744S, -178.2016WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes Fiji region (0 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 21:08:35 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 617.24 km (384 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cru9. Id of event: us7000cru9. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/12/20 / 2020-12-13 21:08:35 / December 13, 2020 @ 9:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -178.2016 West, latitude -18.1744 South, depth = 617.24 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1744° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 617.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fiji region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-13 21:08:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-28 23:44:02 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 3.59 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us7000cru9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cru9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cru9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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