Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 107 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 107 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji (66 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 08/04/16 / 2016-04-08 14:42:20 / April 8, 2016 @ 2:42 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:42:20 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 501.43 km (312 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -177.6958 West, latitude -20.4479 South, depth = 501.43 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005if0. Id of event: us20005if0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 107 km ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.6958° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.4479° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	501.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	107km ENE 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	2016-04-08 14:42:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-22 08:05:51	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	4.836	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us20005if0	Id of event.
Event Code	20005if0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005if0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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