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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Levuka in Fiji

Posted by admin on August 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8315S, -177.9729WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 288 km E of Levuka, Fiji (179 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:48:05 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -177.9729 West, latitude -17.8315 South, depth = 590.108 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 590.108 km (367 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000qyuw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qyuw. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/07/25 / 2025-07-24 07:48:05 / July 24, 2025 @ 7:48 am UTC/GMT.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 288 km E of Levuka, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9729° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8315° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 590.108 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 288 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 2025-07-24 07:48:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-09 05:27:21 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.875 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us6000qyuw Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyuw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyuw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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