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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 277 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji

Posted by admin on January 28, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.5511S, -178.2926WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (mg/mb) has striked on Tuesday, 277 kilometers (172 miles) from Lambasa in Fiji. The temblor was reported at 08:17:36 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 636.08 km (395 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-27 08:17:36 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -178.2926 West, latitude -17.5511 South, depth 636.08 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2926° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.5511° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 636.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 277km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-01-27 20:17:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-28 16:38:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.49 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 usb000tiq4 Id of event.
Event Code b000tiq4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usb000tiq4 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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