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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.4712S, -178.4968WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 254 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (158 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 628.57 km (391 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/02/16 / 2016-02-13 00:29:33 / February 13, 2016 @ 12:29 am. Unique identifier: us200050ur. Ids that are associated to the event: us200050ur. Exact location of event, depth 628.57 km, -178.4968° West, -17.4712° South. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:29:33 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 254 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.4712° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 628.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 254km ESE 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 2016-02-13 00:29:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-27 04:20:29 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 246 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 3.301 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us200050ur Id of event.
Event Code 200050ur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200050ur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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