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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.271S, -178.8547WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 210 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (130 miles) on Friday. 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: 23/04/16 / 2016-04-23 00:58:50 / April 23, 2016 @ 12:58 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 556.86 km (346 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -178.8547 West, latitude -17.271 South, depth = 556.86 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:58:50 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10005ddy. Unique identifier: us10005ddy.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 210 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.8547° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.271° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 556.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210km 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 2016-04-23 00:58:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-13 03:44:51 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 2.988 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us10005ddy Id of event.
Event Code 10005ddy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ddy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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