Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Ndoi Island in Fiji

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 115 km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji (71 miles) on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us20002vzr. Event ids that are associated: us20002vzr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 554.47 km (345 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:37:08 / 3:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/06/15 / 2015-06-22 03:37:08 / June 22, 2015 @ 3:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -179.028° West, latitude -21.6462° South, depth = 554.47 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy 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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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: 115 km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-179.028° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-21.6462° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	554.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	115km SSW 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	2015-06-22 03:37:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-09 03:34:56	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	298	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	4.756	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	168	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	us20002vzr	Id of event.
Event Code	20002vzr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002vzr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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