Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 156 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 156 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (97 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 11:41:57 / July 1, 2015 @ 11:41 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002xqi. Id of event: us20002xqi. The temblor was detected at 23:41:57 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -177.584° West, -19.7101° South, depth 558.16 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 558.16 km (347 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 156 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.584° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-19.7101° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	558.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	156km 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	2015-07-01 11:41:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-30 12:24:06	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	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.573	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	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	us20002xqi	Id of event.
Event Code	20002xqi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002xqi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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