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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Lambasa in Fiji


Earthquake location -17.6576S, -178.5066WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 263 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji (163 miles) on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 579.93 km (360 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:38:31 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us200061sw. Event ids that are associated: us200061sw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.5066 West, latitude -17.6576 South, depth = 579.93 km. Global time and date of event 31/05/16 / 2016-05-31 00:38:31 / May 31, 2016 @ 12:38 am UTC/GMT. 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 five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 263 km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.5066° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6576° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 579.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 263km 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 2016-05-31 00:38:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-13 04:29:08 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 3.28 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us200061sw Id of event.
Event Code 200061sw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200061sw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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