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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -23.0666S, -178.7234WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 267 km S of Ndoi Island, Fiji (166 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.7234 West, latitude -23.0666 South, depth = 578.95 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/15 / 2015-08-14 22:30:59 / August 14, 2015 @ 10:30 pm. The temblor was reported at 10:30:59 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us100036bs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100036bs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 578.95 km (360 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 267 km S of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.7234° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.0666° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 578.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 267km S 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 2015-08-14 22:30:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-12 03:40:24 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 284 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 6.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us100036bs Id of event.
Event Code 100036bs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100036bs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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