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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on December 12, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8703S, -178.5256WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 229 km E of Levuka, Fiji (142 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 08:47:40 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 591.297 km (367 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.5256 West, latitude -17.8703 South, depth = 591.297 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/12/24 / 2024-12-12 08:47:40 / December 12, 2024 @ 8:47 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000ny42. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ny42. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 229 km E of Levuka, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.5256° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8703° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 591.297 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 229 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 2024-12-12 08:47:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-12 09:03:14 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 298 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us7000ny42 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ny42 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ny42, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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