Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 296 km SE of Levuka, Fiji

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 296 km SE of Levuka, Fiji (184 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -178.8738° West, latitude -20.1223° South, depth = 623.355 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rpdq. Unique identifier: us6000rpdq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/25 / 2025-10-31 19:31:00 / October 31, 2025 @ 7:31 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 623.355 km (387 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:31:00 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). 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 five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 296 km SE of Levuka, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.8738° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.1223° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	623.355 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	296 km SE 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	2025-10-31 19:31:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-21 15:56:43	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.749	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us6000rpdq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rpdq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rpdq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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