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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Labasa in Fiji

Posted by admin on October 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.1571S, -178.826WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 208 km ESE of Labasa, Fiji (129 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 549.856 km (342 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000ream. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ream. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.826 West, latitude -17.1571 South, depth = 549.856 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/09/25 / 2025-09-09 04:30:40 / September 9, 2025 @ 4:30 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:30:40 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 208 km ESE of Labasa, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.826° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.1571° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 549.856 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 208 km ESE of Labasa, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-09 04:30:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-08 02:23:51 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.855 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 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 us6000ream Id of event.
Event Code 6000ream An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ream, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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