Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Ndoi Island in Fiji

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 166 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (103 miles). Event id: us10002m9g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002m9g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 546.1 km (339 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 01:51:50 / June 29, 2015 @ 1:51 am. The temblor was reported at 13:51:50 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -177.583° West, latitude -19.5796° South, depth = 546.1 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 166 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.583° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.5796° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	546.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	166km NE 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	2015-06-29 01:51:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-06-29 03:27:29	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	312	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	4.521	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	us10002m9g	Id of event.
Event Code	10002m9g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002m9g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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