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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Ndoi Island in Fiji


Earthquake location -19.3312S, -177.5464WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 189 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (117 miles). Event id: us2000413a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000413a. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 551 km (342 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:17:51 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -177.5464 West, latitude -19.3312 South, depth = 551 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 31/10/15 / 2015-10-31 15:17:51 / October 31, 2015 @ 3:17 pm UTC/GMT.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 189 km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.5464° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.3312° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 551 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189km 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 2015-10-31 15:17:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-31 15:36:07 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 369 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 4.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us2000413a Id of event.
Event Code 2000413a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000413a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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