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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 207 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji


Earthquake location -17.6809S, -179.1729WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 207 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji (129 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10003zjw. Event ids that are associated: us10003zjw. Exact location of event, longitude -179.1729 West, latitude -17.6809 South, depth = 590.41 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 590.41 km (367 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 23:48:25 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 11:48:25 / November 16, 2015 @ 11:48 am UTC/GMT.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 207 km SE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.1729° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6809° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 590.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 207km SE of Lambasa, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-16 11:48:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-30 14:43:39 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 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 2.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us10003zjw Id of event.
Event Code 10003zjw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zjw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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