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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near the Fiji Islands

Posted by admin on August 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.8735S, -179.9338WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, south of the Fiji Islands (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/25 / 2025-07-26 23:20:00 / July 26, 2025 @ 11:20 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 530.336 km (330 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:20:00 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -179.9338 West, latitude -23.8735 South, depth = 530.336 km. Id of earthquake: us6000qz3q. Event ids that are associated: us6000qz3q.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: south of the Fiji Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.9338° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.8735° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 530.336 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 2025-07-26 23:20:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-08 23:29:34 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.382 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us6000qz3q Id of event.
Event Code 6000qz3q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qz3q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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