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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -20.4106S, -178.2081WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 57 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (35 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002p0e. Unique identifier: us20002p0e. Exact location of event, longitude -178.2081 West, latitude -20.4106 South, depth = 538 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 538 km (334 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/05/15 / 2015-05-31 22:58:44 / May 31, 2015 @ 10:58 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:58:44 / 10:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 57 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2081° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.4106° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 538 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-31 22:58:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 00:25:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 4.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us20002p0e Id of event.
Event Code 20002p0e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002p0e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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