Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 208 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 208 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji (129 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000qbwj. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qbwj. Global time and date of event 10/07/25 / 2025-07-10 19:51:19 / July 10, 2025 @ 7:51 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:51:19 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.7788 West, latitude -17.5931 South, depth = 548.562 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 548.562 km (341 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 208 km ENE of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.7788° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.5931° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	548.562 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	208 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	2025-07-10 19:51:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-10 20:11:58	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	369	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.089	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us7000qbwj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qbwj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qbwj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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