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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, south of the Fiji Islands


Earthquake location -25.0335S, -177.3389WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes south of the Fiji Islands (0 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -177.3389° West, -25.0335° South, depth 180.678 km. The temblor was reported at 04:53:30 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/06/24 / 2024-06-06 04:53:30 / June 6, 2024 @ 4:53 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ms6g. Id of event: us7000ms6g. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 180.678 km (112 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: south of the Fiji Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.3389° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.0335° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 180.678 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Fiji Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-06 04:53:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-20 03:15:44 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 259 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us7000ms6g Id of event.
Event Code 7000ms6g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ms6g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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